* Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2012-05-14 02:45]: > * Imagining that there's some relationship between computer languages > and human languages. > * See COBOL > * See Perl
* Imagining that there's no relationship between computer languages and linguistic cognition. * Mathematical notation is ideal for programming! The only reason to design a programming language is so humans can read it, after all the computer is just as happy to run machine code written by humans manually as machine code written by a compiler. But confusing "designed for human cognition" with "let's make it look like English" is certainly stupid and hateful. Aside from COBOL, see also AppleScript.
