alt Hacker NewsProgramming is special, as it's basically translation on steroids.
I don't know what other profession weaves so many levels of abstraction to get to the final product.
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somenameforme • today at 8:50 AM
There's a 'joke' in engineering that if people knew how many assumptions went into designing a bridge, they’d never dare cross one. In engineering the abstractions are even more abstract, but quite useful nonetheless.
Well, "translator" was one of the first jobs to be lost to AI.