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What features in a human language would make it the optimal basis for a computer language?

by zeristor 7y ago

ocschwar 7y ago
The degree to which words are inflected by context. In English, it's almost nil. In Chinese, it's nil. Lingua Romana Perligata is an amusing example of how to use a heavily inflected language for programming, but it shows why you don't really want to do that.
- b2gills 7y ago
  I've heard that Perligata has actually been used in production. (It was similar to their native language.)