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Re: Conditional Action Programmer

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> AP is an experimental project from Microsoft Technology and Research, available to you as and Android app on Google Play Store and the web.

And this is why I went from Windows Phone 8 to Android. The Microsoft experience on Android is arguably better than on their own OS.

Re: Conditional Action Programmer

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"What can CAP do for you? First let's agree….. worst name ever. Now that we're past that, here's our story, and an ask."

MS, you're competing with a product called "IFTTT". Don't think so lowly of yourself!

Re: Conditional Action Programmer

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post #3

> AP is an experimental project from Microsoft Technology and Research, available to you as and Android app on Google Play Store and the web. And this is why I went from Windows Phone 8 to Android. The Microsoft experience on Android is arguably better than on their own OS.

And to think, the Android guys originally wanted to use C# as the native Android language, but were worried about being sued by MS for it.

Instead they went with Java and got sued by Oracle for it, whereas MS open sourced it all.

* Yes I know parts of .NET are still closed source/proprietary.

Re: Conditional Action Programmer

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I'm always a little miffed when I see natural language being the input, because now in order to use the tech I need to also play the "guess the verb" games.

This is especially bad in Wolfram Alpha.... I can clearly see that all parts of a query are supported but I have to get the NLP part to parse my sentences right. Though there is Mathematica I guess....

Not that I dislike all natural language stuff (far from it) but I'd love to have access to an AST builder too

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