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> what comes after programming languages Isn't this like asking what comes after spoken language? Arguably the answer is nothing because language is what struc
by foobarqux 12y ago
> what comes after programming languages
Isn't this like asking what comes after spoken language? Arguably the answer is nothing because language is what structured thought is.
- S4M 12y agoNot really. IMHO programming languages should become more and more expressive to the point of being as closed as possible to spoken language, in a distant future.
- zanny 12y agoSpoken language makes no sense. Maybe you just mean expressive, but the last thing I want is a programming language anything like the spoken word, because at least English is a colossal mess of inconsistent jibberish. I've always been interested if someone ever tried to make a sensible spoken word - use all the enunciable syllables of the human voice (go read wikipedia on all the sounds you can make that are defined by one of the 26 English letters) with combinatorial and sensible word structure and straightforward sentence structure. And the, ironically, best way to define something like that would be like how you define a programming language.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> because at least English is a colossal mess of inconsistent jibberish. Yup. Every natural language is. The reason we can work that way is that conversation is a tight feedback loop and people look for voluntary and involuntary clues telling whether the others understood them properly, and keep correcting until the (perception of) understanding is reached.
- pinkyand 12y agoExcatly. Nothing. The computer should be able to figure out what to do on it's own.
- spyder 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalanguage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalanguage