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In my opinion making a programming language more like a spoken language will just add more confusion. To an english speaker, the phrase "take every number in th
by blackle 11y ago
In my opinion making a programming language more like a spoken language will just add more confusion. To an english speaker, the phrase "take every number in the list X and add five" means the same as "add five to each number in the list X", but in many cases these natural language compilers cannot recognize that.
- pliftkl 11y agoThe spoken language has some horrible holes in it. A couple of my favorite examples: "You cannot put too much salt in a margarita" (which has two completely opposite meanings) and "I did not say he beat his dog" (which can have seven different underlying meanings depending on where you put the inflection).
- blackle 11y agoYeah, inflection is really interesting. Now I'm reading the examples for this programming language and putting emphasis on random words, lol