[dragonwriter]

> After all, if English was a formal strict language where only one right way existed to express something, we wouldn't need programmers, would we?

If you just solved the fact that one meaning can have many expressions, we'd still need programmers (and, more relevantly, system analysts) just as much.

The relevant problem is that English isn't a formal strict language where a particular expression can only have one meaning (and, more importantly, that, people don't use it that way even when it superficially seems to be.)

That is, the problem that requires specialized work to develop unambiguous requirements for the implementation of (among other things) information systems isn't that English maps (many expressions) -> (one meaning), but that it maps (one expression) -> (many meanings).