D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:57:10 +0300
"Andrii V. Mishkovskyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not everybody has grown in English-speaking community, you know. And
knowing math quite good, I prefer writing "x = y" instead of "Set x to
y".
OMG! It's COBOL.
Wasn't there an aborted attempt at writing a language based on English
back in the sixties or seventies? I seem to recall that it failed
mainly because it turns out that programmers don't like to speak in
English, even when it is their first language, to describe computer
algorithms. If that wasn't true then pseudocode would look a lot more
like English than it does. In fact, pseudocode tends to look a lot
like Python.
I don't always agree with him but I thought Dave Thomas' recent post[1]
about 'natural language like' programming languages was pretty spot on.
He is specifically talking about Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) but I
think it applies to general programming languages just as well.
Janzert
1. http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/03/the-language-in.html
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