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Cobol was designed on the premise that it would be so "English like" (and by using business expressions as keywords) that it would allow business people to express things in familiar terms so that they could write their own programs and fire all their programmers. Instead, programmers were still necessary and they ended up having to deal with a horrible clumsy language. This is the same thing, only applied to visual representations.

In other news, I've developed a type of brick that's so easy for homeowners to lay, that architects will no longer be necessary!



"Scalpels so easy, anyone can operate!"

"Ingredients so good, anyone can cook!"

Imagine how pissed the writer of this article would be if someone ran around talking about a notebook so powerful that anyone could be a journalist.




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