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Software than can write software has been a dream since.. well.. software was invented. This advert from 1983.
In a way, Lisp is software that can write software, and that was 1960. And /technically/ machine code can also write machine code. But of course those examples are very different from these early “no/low code” tools.
@GrantMeStrength I remember the hype about this from 1981!
@llamasoft_ox could use the same image today - except it would be created by DALL-E.
@llamasoft_ox @GrantMeStrength Ah, The Last One - at least that was on overhyped product not a whole industry :)
@llamasoft_ox @GrantMeStrength
I went for an interview at The Last One's office in Ilminster, ages ago... I didn't get an offer, but I really didn't like them, either...
@GrantMeStrength I remember a similar program from a year earlier (at least, it claims to have been nominated SOFTWARE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 1982"). It was called The Last One. Here in an advert from Personal Computer World for May 1983.
@mike ah yes I remember this too. I wonder if all the software that can write software was created by software that wrote itself?
@GrantMeStrength @mike You mean the singularity? I think it may have been the billion typing monkeys.
@GrantMeStrength incredible to see where it all began, the moment the world changed. Wild to think how everyone had to program computers with complex codes before Personal PEARL made all that obsolete.
@GrantMeStrength thanks for sharing this. I refer to this system from the 1980's when having conversations about "lo-code/no-code", esp. with those super excited with this category :-) I recall this advert specifically, too. Happy memories.
@GrantMeStrength @codinghorror I'm half tempted to get a CP/M emulator running to try it https://archive.org/details/osborneexecutivepersonalpearl
@stoneymonster @GrantMeStrength @codinghorror I actually have a physical copy with the manual for it for my Osborne One.
@steven @stoneymonster @GrantMeStrength @codinghorror Correct. No relation to Perl.
@GrantMeStrength I once told an AS/400 developer that I was learning Perl and he was unreasonably delighted.
@psu_13 @GrantMeStrength Sign me up! Oh, wait. 1981? Bother. That was before I graduated from college with a B.S. in Comp Sci. Why did I get a career in programming?
@GrantMeStrength oowwoooooooo!
@simoncozens @GrantMeStrength That article reminds me of Monty Python’s Rock Notes skit from Contractual Obligations!
@GrantMeStrength that #font used for pearl brand at the bottom is wicked 
anyone know if it’s available somewhere?
@GrantMeStrength h I thought MATLAB Simulink had been doing this for many years, even for safety critical aerospace applications like control systems?
@GrantMeStrength That came with my first computer, an Osborne Executive. I was very confused by the ads versus what it was. (It was a hierarchical database program.) I liked it a lot, but it didn't seem to be "writing software" any more than, say, creating a spreadsheet in VisiCalc, which it also had.
@GrantMeStrength very nice. Do you have any additional information about the company behind this advert