* 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.

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