The last one

Today I found myself in front of this advertisement.

The first program you should buy.
The last one ... the first program that writes programs!

I remember it, I had seen it running on my Apple IIe, but the version for Apple, if I remember correctly had a bug, did not handle correctly the "if".

However, it must be admitted that it is fascinating, a winning idea! The program that writes programs, what a dream!

Thirty years have passed and we have not yet succeeded.
First the fourth generation languages, then object-oriented programming, then CASE etc. etc.
Then new languages, new challenges, internet, smartphones ...

Along the way, I do not see the finish line.

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