Why him does not use a natural language for programming?

[Bob Sneidar]

I may have misunderstood him then. I am not sure what the distinction between English-like and natural English programming languages is however. Give me an example of a natural english programming language if you please. I have not ever heard of anything except hypertext based languages, because the consensus was waaay back in the day that you could only go so far to make a programming language like a spoken one before all kinds of problems enter in. It has been my understanding that Hypertalk and it's derivatives is as far as it has gone. It also seemed to me that he was making the case that languages like the one Livecode uses are inferior to Python and not to be considered because they are too arbitrary. Again, I may have misunderstood him. 

Bob


On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Dave Cragg wrote:

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> On 23 Feb 2012, at 22:01, Bob Sneidar wrote:
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>> I find his arguments ludicrous. Let me see some examples of english like programming languages where a command could mean two different things without any arguments supplied. What a preposterous thing to say! I can only think he came right out of college into whatever teaching position he now holds. BTW this is the kind of "my way is better than your way" of thinking I alluded to in another post. For example, almost all the people I have ever talked to in the past who *hate* Apple computers (their words not mine) have never actually used one. This guy has obviously (as Al points out) never actually USED an english like development language. 
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>> Bob
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> Being a bit harsh, aren't you, Bob? I don't think he was referring to "English-like" but rather "natural English". I don't think it's the same thing. Livecode can be described as "English-like", but probably not "natural English".  I could be wrong, in which case, as they say in these parts, send the apologies of me to the target.
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> end Dave
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