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		Grue3 on Aug 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the foolishness of “natural language programmin... The counterpoint would be Inform 7 [1], a natural language-based programming language for interactive fiction. [1] http://inform7.com/

the_af on Aug 25, 2014 [–]

Inform is a formal language with precise disambiguation mechanisms that natural language doesn't have.

The goal is not simply to replace curly braces and other symbols with English words; unlike what COBOL would have us think, that road doesn't lead to natural language at all.

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