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On 01/13/2016 06:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Or we're too busy dealing with rising sea levels, crop failures, antibiotic
> resistant diseases, chaotic mass migrations, terrorists, wars for control
> over resources like water, and the collapse of the corporate state to care
> about such little things as upgrades to programming languages.
> 
> Or the AI singularity arrives and "human programmer" becomes as obsolete
> as "flint knapper".

Most likely, given your apocalyptic scenarios, flintknapping will become
an essential skill again!