RV: Re: Natural language
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De: Daniel Berstein <danielberstein at usa.net>
Para: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS <EUPHORIA at MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU>
Fecha: Lunes 30 de Marzo de 1998 04:05 PM
Asunto: RE: Re: Natural language
>My thought about "Natural language programming":
>
>What use would it have a natural language propramming interface? Have you
>ever tried to explain a complex algorithm to someone without falling into
>control-structure definition, or data types? I just can't in plain Spanish
>(or english or whatever). We see it everyday on this listserver... each
time
>someone needs help, we reply with of bunch of CODE... not natural language
>description/solution. In the case someone actually does a natural-language
>compiler, who defines the language? Doesn't language have social, ever
>evolving nature? Is it admisable to change your code after a new edition of
>Webster's dictionary?
>
>The world has spent more than half a century developing better interfaces
>with digital machines. The best we've done: high-level programming
>languages. What does it mean? We replace meaningless nemonics with plain
>english words (if..then, for..next,..). We've also developed a lot of
>methodologies (OO, structured, etc..) for helping *us* do the translation.
>Maybe in this field is the key for a more human-natural approach with the
>machine.
>
>I do see a usefulness in natural languages on computers... end user
>interfaces (voice recognition, OCR, etc..), not programming.
>
>
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