> do you really want to be saying 'Colon, Dee' to enter in :D
"Open mouth smiley"
> Not to mention the implications on coding
Could be the renaissance of english-alike programming languages like HyperTalk.
on mouseDown
answer file "Please select a text file to open."
if it is empty then exit mouseDown
put it into filePath
if there is a file filePath then
open file filePath
read from file filePath until return
put it into card field "some field"
close file filePath
set the textStyle of character 1 to 10 of card field "some field" to bold
end if
end mouseDown
But this is ambiguous. That could be ':D' or '=D'.
As for the coding example, I cannot imagine that ending well. I mean, it's full of little oddities that don't exist in spoken language. Even look at "filePath". You can't say filePath because while in our heads, we see it like that, the spoken is 'file path'. Paths themselves are a mess to deal with since words like 'space' and 'backslash' and other 'reserved words' couldn't be used in the actual name of the path because they would have to be used in other places.
Spoken language is just way too context sensitive to work at that level. Written language is absolute, at least to a machine.
Agree.
I know I already talk to myself in english when I'm reading code. Something like "Okay we have a data structure named users consisting of an array of objects. Each object has..."
The programming language is just a translation of ideas from my english language thinking to/from the computer. I don't see why it couldn't be more english like. To type it all out in that fashion would be very tedious, and even speaking it is more tedious than simply users = [{},{}...]
But with sufficient abstraction these things would become less and less verbose.
"Open mouth smiley"
> Not to mention the implications on coding
Could be the renaissance of english-alike programming languages like HyperTalk.