Why archery and Python jargon have a surprisingly common history
Why does English have many words from archery like aim, target etc?
Because England was an archery land. For those of you who like history, the formidable longbow was invented here and many English battles were won by its usage (see Agincourt).
The majority of people were not rich to become knights or buy armour but the longbow was accessible. Everybody, if not directly, indirectly knew something about archery. Hence the language reflected that.
Now what does that have to do with Python and AI?
Well.
You may have noticed that chatgpt and alike (copilot etc.) Can indeed produce code. To the point some started to over exaggerate saying developers will be out of job soon.
No, we are not going to get rid of developers (maybe the front end is an exception).
What we are going to do is
-teaching faster and cheaply people how to code
-program managers and stakeholders will have more controls and understanding to check developers work
In practice it will be more affordable and efficient for many to at least know something about programming.
To the point some technical words will spill out in common language.
I will not be surprised that by 2027 the dictionary will add a word from a programming language. Like python.
And history will repeat itself. This time in a good way.
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