> no programming tool to compile natural language into code Pretty sure you missed a couple news articles recently... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=301

> no programming tool to compile natural language into code Pretty sure you missed a couple news articles recently... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30179549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30179549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266 They're not exactly reliable, but you probably could say the same for the earliest compilers (from programming languages to asm/machine code). I'm not saying they will definitely be usable in the short term future, but that future is probably coming sooner or later, and I don't think a fragile definition (programming==="applied formal logic") is worth reiterating over and over again as if it were some fundamental truth.