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It was like learning to program all over again. Long before Haskell coalesced into a programming language, it was a swarm of theoretical concepts. In 1977, the computer scientist John Backus ...

But one group of workers sees ChatGPT as good for their industry: Programmers. Programmers said AI makes their work faster and opens up new job opportunities. The threat of automation is the ...

Over the past few decades, various movements, paradigms, or technology surges -- whatever you want to call them -- have roiled the software world, promising either to hand a lot of programming ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum ...