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Can you explain your reasoning? I don't get it at all.

• flangola7 3y ago
  Humans communicate in natural language. When a CEO or project VP commands to have something they want produced, they're not using any kind of "reliable/stable" exact language. They may barely be able to even use a computer, much less write code. Nevertheless the final production product is still completed.
  • jaen 3y ago
    When the end product is supposed to have any semblance of reliability and durability, even human beings do not communicate in natural language. As an example: - Science: Many non-natural languages and notations used for communication, math being the most obvious. - Laws: Looks like natural language when you squint, but actually very rigid and un-natural.
    • flangola7 3y ago
      What does that have to do with the CEO I mentioned? They're not writing math or legal documents, yet their wishes are still materialized. Whatever the intermediary processor utilizes is unimportant.
      • jaen 3y ago
        It's an example of large domains where natural language does not work well enough, as a counterpoint to the arbitrary, niche CEO example of a situation where it might work. It is responding to the entire thread, not just your comment.
  • TheMode 3y ago
    How do you plan to update such natural language code? Words change meaning. This is what I meant by stable