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This may be the case for natural languages, but is simply not the case with programming languages. A natural language is evolved over thousands of years and con
by CGamesPlay 18y ago
This may be the case for natural languages, but is simply not the case with programming languages. A natural language is evolved over thousands of years and contains cultural nuances and hundreds of thousands of words in the vocabulary. A programming language is engineered to be simple and concise, containing a grammar that can fit in a few pages of BNF and at most a few hundred words in the vocabulary.