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by hasenj 5694 days ago
I'm suspecious of the usefulness of such an approach.

What's easier, "5 + 10" or "five plus 10", or even worse "five added to ten"?

Dijkstra had an article about that, titled: On the foolishness of "natural language programming"[1].

[1]: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EW...