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Writing Python, I'm not sure it matters. Just like writing COBOL and Fortran doesn't really matter right now. Maybe English is the Python of the future.

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“Just like writing COBOL and Fortran didn't really doesn't really matter right now.”

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But, yeah, writing Python, I'm not sure. Just like writing COBOL and Fortran didn't really doesn't really matter right now. Right? Or, like, writing C plus plus in many cases may not even matter. So Like speaking Latin? Yeah. Exactly. And so, yeah. Yeah. And I think in many ways, maybe English is the Python of the future. And how do you think about in this age where maybe expertise is getting free or something, what are humans good at? I'm not sure. I'm I'm really not sure because,

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Provocative comparison of Python to dead languages like COBOL. The phrase 'English is the Python of the future' is highly quotable and challenges programmers' core skills.

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