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> This reminds me of programming languages designed with an English-like syntax in the hope that people would be able to develop software without learning to co
by nl 2y ago
> This reminds me of programming languages designed with an English-like syntax in the hope that people would be able to develop software without learning to code... Neither approach has remained popular into the modern era.
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MS Office macros continues to use VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) which traces its roots to BASIC - one of those "English like syntax" languages. MS Office macros remains one of the most popular languages in the world.
- Zak 2y agoI wouldn't put BASIC in that family; it's probably closer to simplified FORTRAN. SQL is probably the best counterexample.
- nl 2y agoBASIC is literally "Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" To quote Wikipedia:"They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers."