[osflash] New Language RFC

[Benjamin Jackson]

On Oct 28, 2005, at 2:46 AM, Cortlandt Winters wrote:
>  I really liked a language called toolbook written in the early 90's 
> because the code could be written to read like a natural language.
>
>  "to handle buttonclick send rotateview to gyro and put green key into 
> first word of second paragraph of table layout"

I have to respectfully disagree. Anyone who's taken even a passing 
glance at Applescript will tell you that natural language programming 
languages end up looking like anything but...

John Gruber expressed this much more eloquently than I can here:

http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/englishlikeness_monster

IMHO the levels of complexity and shades of meaning that human language 
allows for are, at least for the foreseeable future, beyond what can be 
translated into 1s and 0s.
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