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fweimeryesterday at 5:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

I'm pretty sure people said this about the early COBOL compilers, too. They were buggy, the API had terrible uptime, and was slow to respond.

Overall, this whole approach to programming seems to align really well with the original premise of COBOL. I wonder when people will start putting

# Identification Division

into their Markdown files.


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fg137yesterday at 5:56 PM

I'm pretty sure COBOL compiler bugs were deterministic.

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archagonyesterday at 7:08 PM

Repeat after me: AI is not an abstraction.