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hbarka | on: The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
There’s em dashes in that 1978 article.
kevin_thibedeau | parent | next
The typed original [1] has double hyphens that have been converted to dashes. His typewriter (Hermes Ambassador) was fixed pitch.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd06xx/EWD667.PDF

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timcobb | parent | next
It can only mean one thing.
gnabgib | root | parent
Get out the Binford 6000, it's Tool Time?
archargelod | parent | next
It's not just em dashes, it's 1: typewriter em dashes aka `--` and 2: usage of them in pairs, like parenthesis, that is completely different from how LLMs use them.
nickm12 | parent | next
Proof that Djikstra was an AI model!
adamrezich | parent | next
Literally stop the presses