Why him does not use a natural language for programming?

[Bob Sneidar]

Because a statement has to be true or not in order to proceed. This is the very point the instructor in the video was making about the ambiguity of natural languages and their inability to be properly implemented in a development language. Do you mean the field object itself, or do you mean the text in the field after you hit a bunch of non printing characters? 

Bob


On Feb 24, 2012, at 12:19 AM, Phil Jimmieson wrote:

> The one that always makes me have to think twice is
> 
> 	if the visible of field "X" is true then
> 
> Why not:
> 
> 	if field "X" is visible then
> 
> I usually start out by writing the latter and then remember it has to be the former...
> 
> On 24 Feb 2012, at 07:47, Jerry Jensen wrote:
> 
>> I think pseudo-natural language is as goofy as any other.
>> 
>> What you expect when you type into the msg box:
>> put me into it; put it
>> 
>> How about:
>> get me; put it
>> 
>> At least that one is a bit reassuring...
>> 
>> ??
>> 
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