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I believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human language, the same way as low level languages replaced by high level languages. It is the natur

• Terretta 10mo ago
  > I believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human languageI believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human language Ask any human client buying dev work from a web agency how "natural language" spec works out for them. It's not clear to me at all that "natural language" alone is ideal -- unless you also have near real time iteration of builds. If you do, then the build is a concrete manifestation of the spec, and the natural language can say "but that's not what I meant". This allows messy natural language to vector towards the solution, "I'll know it when I see it" style. So, natural language shaping iteratively convergent builds.
• blks 10mo ago
  Is that your actual believe? That non-formal, natural human language explaining the task will replace formal programming?
  • felipeerias 10mo ago
    Things seem to be heading in the direction of using formal languages to define deterministic behaviour and natural languages to express matters of human taste.
  • spaceman_2020 10mo ago
    If you zoom out, it does seem like the most natural thing - why should humans with finite memory and context better than an all knowing machine?