> Do you know how many times I've taken someone's keyboard to type a tiny snippet and then explained it in English with the code as reference? Why do you think I don't just explain it in English first? Because English is verbose and ambiguous and not suited to describing logic. That's what programming languages are for.
Exactly this — and it is true about any human language. They were built for humans who are capable of interpreting things given the context. Try covering every single case in English and you have a lengthy legal document which no one wants to read — and it still has some ambiguity left.
If you want an example of what English would look like if used for programming, take a legal document and multiply it by 100.
Exactly this — and it is true about any human language. They were built for humans who are capable of interpreting things given the context. Try covering every single case in English and you have a lengthy legal document which no one wants to read — and it still has some ambiguity left.
If you want an example of what English would look like if used for programming, take a legal document and multiply it by 100.