What is "Open Language"?

[Richmond]

On 24/10/15 19:53, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Mark Waddingham wrote:
>
> > Simply put, Open Language is a technology that will mean that LCB
> > libraries and widgets will be able to define english-like syntax
> > rather than being limited to function call / command call / property
> > access syntax.
> >
> > It is a key piece that will not only mean 'third parties' can define
> > english-like syntax but also mean the all the current engine syntax
> > can be very easily evolved and augmented.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Do we have a projected timeline for that?
>
> 2. Isn't the goal so that we can have 10,000 different, often 
> incompatible and sometimes confusing, custom syntax options for doing 
> basic things like setting the rect of a button?  :)  (This is why I 
> get food thrown at me while speaking at LiveCode conferences)
>

Well, what to one person is 'natural language' may not be to another:
and a "10,000 different, often incompatible and sometimes confusing,
custom syntax options" does seem to sum that problem up fairly effectively.

It is an unreachable ideal for the plain and simple reason that 
computers do not work in the
same way as human brains.

R.