[mkramlich]

Two reactions to this piece.

1. I'm not sure what problem so-called natural language programming is trying to solve.

2. Though I admire this man's building of Mathematica and the company that sells it, I'm generally not a fan of what I perceive as his history of "discovering the obvious" and self-promotion. Or rather, rediscovering or making things sound like he invented them or came up with them for the first time. Cellular automata and it's implications in his book "A New Kind of Science", and now this piece sounds like more of the same. I give him a little slack because he's in business and so there's the self-promotion angle, but not much.