Why him does not use a natural language for programming?

[Mark Wieder]

Jacque-

Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7:20:40 PM, you wrote:

>> set foreColor of fld "myField" to blue

I'll double down on your rant.
<rant>
Since when is "fld" easier to read than "field"? You save typing two
vowels and end up with a thing that's not a word in any language I
know of. Same thing with "btn", etc. That's a step away from either
English-like or natural language processing - your brain has to do a
cognitive dance from the vowelless thing (shades of H.P. Lovecraft) to
a real word, and then can continue with the rest of the phrase to make
sense of the statement.
</rant>

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