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Re: Spoken programming language

From:Alex Fink <000024@...>
Date:Saturday, January 3, 2009, 23:17
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

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Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>