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To: Crabbe who wrote (4068)	2/7/2006 1:32:21 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218262

"...one of them in the not far distant future will be a self programming application that will write other programs" Don't hold your breath. Only the simplest programming tasks will be automated, and only with enormous programming effort. I have a lot of contact with engineers, and I'm amazed how many of them don't even know how to use VB in Excel. By the way, I write a lot of programs as part of my work, as do the people around me (we are called engineers, or scientists, not programmers). The idea that what we're doing could be automated is truly laughable, believe me. I think your error is in thinking that you know what kinds of programs will be required in the future. We will always be pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and this has to be done by live humans, not by computer programs - unless you believe that a program can be more clever than the programmer who created it. If so, I have a bridge you might be interested in buying.