The best Programming books?

[metulburr]

After all, why do things the hard way when you can just talk to it. Even though you may talk for a very long time before the program you want to create is completed.

That finally, what will happen is that a program will be written, that can listen to english and translate that into machine code.

I dont see this happening. At least not in my lifetime anyway. My generation is used to keyboarding. We have seen time and time again attempts at voice identification and laugh at it. I dont know anyone personally that utilizes it seriously. The only difference in my generation and my kids are they are learning touch screens instead. They will probably prefer some form of soft keyboards to input data in every day use, but i dont see voice.

Not to mention bugs. What happens if the program misidentifies a word and bugs the program. If the program switches words to machine code there is no middleman for the programmer to confirm or deny.

Also there are still a lot of people out there that would prefer typing over talking. I can type faster than i can talk. I think the concept of Alexa or Google Assistant is more a toy than tool. I would much rather walk to a light switch than speak. The day i see computers replaced with Google assistants in the work place is the day i would think differently.