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by geoff-codes 3932 days ago
Ha. Having conquered the paywall:

Ridiculous. COBOL. AppleScript. Lego Mindstorms. Also:

Is it difficult to develop a programming language which is closely related to human language? (http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/267489/is-it-...)

Or, in one of the clearest and most succinct pieces Dijkstra ever wrote:

On the foolishness of "natural language programming".

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...