On: Why did we ever think a student's first programming language didn't matter?

[noir_lord]

> I imagine the trend will continue where deceptively simple interfaces allow people to automate routine tasks.

For that to work you need some equivalent of unix's `|` for disparate systems.

It's been tried but the problem becomes a sufficiently expressive interface between systems.

There is a reason why in 2021 I still occasionally dump stuff to CSV and re-import somewhere else.