Logan, I think I see the confusion here. First, a short history lesson.
The first high level language was Algol. However, while it was quite compilable, it was not EFFICIENTLY compilable, so the two immediate following languages, FORTRAN and COBOL went to a LOT of work to sprinkle impediments into the languages to improve both readability and speed. FORTRAN focused on speed, e.g. with initial versions incorporating FREQUENCY statements to improve optimization, and requiring aX+b formatted subscripts. COBOL focused on readability, making it possible though sometimes not easy to write code that was simultaneously valid COBOL and grammatically correct English, which programming management quickly adopted as a requirement of their programmers. Some defacto standards emerged, e.g. naming error handling sections "Hell", and you can easily guess the statement that was executed when an error was detected. Later, C came along and threw both speed and readability out the window, and programming quickly devolved into its present morass. So, you and I come along. I see that speed-related constraints as in FORTRAN (especially constraints that make vectorization possible) and readability concerns like in COBOL are important to the future of computing. However, your approach is in the C school of thought - of making it possible to mean ANYTHING, regardless of speed and readability. There are doubtless excellent applications for this, but I still don't see them. Steve ======= On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Logan Streondj via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 09:35:00PM -0500, Matt Mahoney via AGI wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Logan Streondj via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > The way I see we can do it, is with Speakable Programming for Every > > > Language (SPEL). > > > > It's called COBOL. > > > > -- > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > So COBOL translate English into Mandarin and Russian? > People can chat to each other in COBOL? > UDHR can be written in COBOL? > > > COBOL is a completely different thing, > just as Inform 7 is also natlang inspired. > But has a much more limited domain of use. > > here is an example sentence of current > alpha prototype of SPEL for contrast. > > eng: su this be example of word language ya > cmn: 此 主题 字 语言 的 例 是 雅 > spa: su este ser ejemplo de idioma palabra sí > fra: su cette être exemple de langue mot ya > rus: а это быть пример из слово язык да > epo: su ĉi esti ekzemplo el vorto lingvo ja > mwak: ka .u mak kwal pi slim .i ya > > > -- > Logan Streondj > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
