When I was naive and young I dreamed about some day make a programming language that was just english…
The I learned about y2k, there was such a thing (more or less) from Apple. It implied knowing a strict subset of english and the correct words and constructs… it was a pain to program that (at least for me)
More or less at that time, I started understanding that programming languages limitations, although at the beginning a necessity, were a feature. Indeed it was already a very small subset of English, with very specific, succinct, small grammar, that was easy to learn (well, C++ stoped being learnable some years ago… but you get the point)
The idea of LLM eliminating good designed languages is hard for me to believe, just as stated in the article.
The I learned about y2k, there was such a thing (more or less) from Apple. It implied knowing a strict subset of english and the correct words and constructs… it was a pain to program that (at least for me)
More or less at that time, I started understanding that programming languages limitations, although at the beginning a necessity, were a feature. Indeed it was already a very small subset of English, with very specific, succinct, small grammar, that was easy to learn (well, C++ stoped being learnable some years ago… but you get the point)
The idea of LLM eliminating good designed languages is hard for me to believe, just as stated in the article.