Why him does not use a natural language for programming?

[Pete]

Try looking at the younger generation's text messages some time!

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

>
> On Feb 24, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
> > 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>
>
> I dnt knw wht yr tlkng abt. Sms prfctly ntrl to me.
>
> :)
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
>
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