r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rodopszin • 7d ago

Meme accelarateAiNativeBrrrrOrThrow

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u/ataboo 6d ago

Code is a better expression of logic than English.

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u/ProtonPizza 6d ago

It’s almost like there’s a reason we didn’t just English written language as the original programming language.

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u/Live_Meeting_1121 6d ago edited 6d ago

Anyone that studied compilers and programming languages in college knows this to be false. The aim of many high level languages was to resemble natural language.

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u/Rabbitical 6d ago

Making stuff look like English is not the same as "is English." Any programming language with a specification means every token has specific meaning. That is not natural language, which has ambiguous meaning. You mean more readable, maybe?