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Natural-language programming comes up from time to time and it rarely sticks around. For myself, I can't parse them without my brain trying to read it as actua
by kayodelycaon 6y ago
Natural-language programming comes up from time to time and it rarely sticks around.
For myself, I can't parse them without my brain trying to read it as actual English. Having programming languages look distinctly different from human communication keeps my mental overhead low. I find Applescript impossible to use.
NLP also has a major issue with rapid comprehension. It's far harder to see the structure of code at a glance if everything is just keywords. While this is an issue with every type of communication, NLP has a significantly lower upper limit to almost every other language I work in. SQL is a middle ground. If you format it properly, it's really easy to scan and see what's happening. Applescript? Not so much.
- recursivedoubts 6y agoI agree, applescript is a warning to anyone going down the hypertalk-derived road I am adding things like CSS literals: https://hyperscript.org/expressions/#css https://hyperscript.org/expressions/#css in the hope that we can increase the expressiveness (and distinctness between different elements) that we don't fall into the wall-of-text nature of applescript. It's a speculative project, we'll see how it works out.