Natural language is a fundamentally wrong vehicle to convey information to a computer. It can be useful for some specific tasks, automated Q/A, simple interfaces to databases, stuff where I can't be properly f_ed to remember the syntax or the shortcut like IDE commands.
But the idea it can replace formal language is fundamentally and dangerously incorrect. I agree with Dijkstra's quip, we shouldn't regard formal language as a burden, but rather as a privilege.
Natural language is a fundamentally wrong vehicle to convey information to a computer. It can be useful for some specific tasks, automated Q/A, simple interfaces to databases, stuff where I can't be properly f_ed to remember the syntax or the shortcut like IDE commands.
But the idea it can replace formal language is fundamentally and dangerously incorrect. I agree with Dijkstra's quip, we shouldn't regard formal language as a burden, but rather as a privilege.