Re: Spoken programming language

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 21:22:05 -0800, Rebecca Bettencourt <beckiergb@...>
wrote:

>I suggest the people interested in this thread take a look at HyperTalk:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk
And Inform 7.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform#Inform_7
Used for describing the world in interactive fiction pieces, so an extremely
natural setting for declarative statements.  (And for that matter Inform 6,
which was for the same domain but used C-like syntax.)

I suggest that, given that "(apple.color == red)" in our generic imperative
language evaluates to a truth value, its best Englishing is "_whether_ the
apple is red".

Alex

Reply