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> The history of making programming languages read like English is a long succession of dead ends. There certainly have been notable failures, such as Applescr
by knowtheory 15y ago
> The history of making programming languages read like English is a long succession of dead ends.
There certainly have been notable failures, such as Applescript, but I find it hard to dismiss Coffeescript, Ruby, SQL and FORTRAN which have all been quite popular.
- SideburnsOfDoom 15y agoI like SQL, not for the english-ish keywords, but for the strong mathematical underpinnings. You left out a notable example of Cobol - Which would you rather read: "Add 1 to someValue Giving someValue", or "someValue++" ?