Python is readable

Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Fri Mar 30 16:30:31 EDT 2012


On 2012-03-30, Nathan Rice <nathan.alexander.rice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Restricted natural languages are an active area of current
> research, and they clearly demonstrate that you can have an
> expressive formal language that is also valid English.

See, for example, Inform 7, which translates a subset of English
into Inform 6 code. I never thought too deeply about why I
disliked it, assuming it was because I already knew Inform 6.
Would you like to write the equivalent, e.g., C code in English?

-- 
Neil Cerutti



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