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by Anamon 329 days ago
A nice article on this was in the January issue of the Communications of the ACM [1]. With a reference to a piece by Dijkstra predicting that this is never going to be effective, back in 1979.

Being able to write code in a programming language is a feature, not a flaw. If we had always had to program in natural language, the precision and unambiguity of programming languages would be an eagerly welcomed revolution.

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/on-program-synthesis-and-large-...