[boardwaalk]

I don’t think you’ll get much play for suggesting (to an audience of at least some programmers) that we should allow for more ambiguity in language, heh.

The programmers I’ve met without an eye for detail are usually ones I do not like working with.

[flohofwoe]

Hehe, true, but unlike programming languages, the languages humans use for communication are "sloppy" and ambiguous by definition. Grammar rules have been invented after the fact to create the illusion that there's order where none exists.

English allows much more "freedom" than many other languages (e.g. German), maybe that's one reason why it has been so successful in the end.