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The entire purpose of a programming language is that everything written in it describes an unambigiously executable process. English isn't and never will be a

• TuringTest 11y ago
  That's only one possible interpretation of computing. The field of semiotics applied to programming has interesting uses where a program needs not be unambiguous to be useful. It's true that the underlying hardware platform will necessarily work as a deterministic sequence of steps executing a small set of primitives - but building that sequence by hand in an unambiguous language is not necessarily the only way to control the hardware; learning methods and evolutive processes, vaguely directed from high-level goals stated in an ambiguous model, is a possible alternative to the current industrial paradigm and might become common in the future.