When do think there would be sucha programing language?

[Amol S.]

When do you folks think that there would be a programing language, where we can type what we want our program to do, in full sentences and paragraphs?

Although I think the obvious answer would be, when AI is developed and has the capability read, comprehend, and program themselves. However, I wan to hear the opinions from you folks.

 

[LevelSea]

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/natural-language-programming.2358744/

 

[Cogman]

Ahh, memories.

To put it simply enough, natural language is to ambiguous to be good at programming. In fact, I wouldn't WANT to use natural language because structure is so important when it comes to coding.

For example, could you imagine writing a video encoder using natural language? Obviously you couldn't just say

"This is a video encoder"

That is too vague. You would end up with something that looks like this to even approach the level of detail needed ( https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/recommendations/rec.aspx?rec=13189 ). And even that doesn't really go into implementation details.

So you get that, but then further you would have to debug it if the spec is wrong, somewhere. How would you even represent that? What would an error even look like "Sentence 3 of sub paragraph 7 clause 8 wasn't descriptive enough". Yuck!

Programming languages, may not be perfect, but I find I appreciate a well defined highly structured non-human grammar any day over the stories I get in my backlog. Code is far less ambiguous.

 

[mv2devnull]

When do you folks think that there would be a programing language, where we can type what we want our program to do, in full sentences and paragraphs?

How long do you think the humans to be able to write and read full sentences and paragraphs? Please tweet the response in non-established acronyms ...