> Isn't this just another species of the same fallacy: that programming is just a special case of natural language use No, because I'm describing a bounded sys

> Isn't this just another species of the same fallacy: that programming is just a special case of natural language use No, because I'm describing a bounded system with a very simple grammar. Statements like: say "Will this solve the problem?" onAnswer "yes", unlockBillableClock ... that's not natural grammar. That's a function call. And strings. And second, I'm not talking about ALL programming, I'm talking about end-user programming. Below this layer is a lot of code written by profession programmers in lots of languages. You're not going to write a web browser with only function calls and string literals. What I would question is the orthodoxy that there is NO place in your codebase where you could refactor to a non-programmer understandable form by forcing yourself to use only calls and lists of strings.