Yet another meme...

This one courtesy of mooseloon...

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This smells like punchcards...

As a fan of Literate Programmming, I was looking forward to a Slashdot article covering natural language programming... right up until I was mid-way through the second page, and I hit this piece:

The HANDS system portrays the components of a program on a round table. All data is stored on cards, and the programmer inserts code into Handy's thought bubble at the upper left corner. When the play button is pressed, Handy begins responding to events by manipulating cards according to the instructions in the thought bubble.

Okay, so we fill out the data on the cards... and we give it something to read...

Not quite sure if that counts as progress...