The English Programming Language
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The English Programming Language
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#2> Currently, the only compiler available is Wernicke
Well, there’s Inform 7: https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/ :)
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#3Cool language! I wish there was more standard interpreter support though. Everyone seems to be using a different flavor, which yields different results depending on where the code runs.
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#4As someone who worked on a 35 million loc cobol and jcl system for several years in the late 90's, I don't find this to be funny at all. Cobol was purported to be readable with english language like syntax to make it more understandable. Giving gems such as:
MULTIPLY TAX-RATE OF STATE(43) BY BALANCE GIVING SALES-TAX-AMOUNT.
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#5>This is a typical English program that implements the Frost pathfinding algorithm:
although this is one of my favouite programs (or poems), i have never before noticed that it is one quite long poem (or program) terminated by a period - i wonder why Frost did that? possibly a pascal programmer?
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#6> Currently, the only compiler available is Wernicke Well, there’s Inform 7: https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/ :)
ooh, inform. before you can work out the english grammar for interacting with the game when the game is running, you have to work out how to interact with the english grammar when writing the grame itself. worst software idea ever, in my opinion.
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#7As someone who worked on a 35 million loc cobol and jcl system for several years in the late 90's, I don't find this to be funny at all. Cobol was purported to be readable with english language like syntax to make it more understandable. Giving gems such as: MULTIPLY TAX-RATE OF STATE(43) BY BALANCE GIVING SALES-TAX-AMOUNT. Note the period is sigificant.
I have no doubt English like syntax is a terrible idea but this seems like a surprisingly readable example.
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#8As someone who worked on a 35 million loc cobol and jcl system for several years in the late 90's, I don't find this to be funny at all. Cobol was purported to be readable with english language like syntax to make it more understandable. Giving gems such as: MULTIPLY TAX-RATE OF STATE(43) BY BALANCE GIVING SALES-TAX-AMOUNT. Note the period is sigificant.
I have no doubt English like syntax is a terrible idea but this seems like a surprisingly readable example.
Agreed, I rather like this line of code, but I must admit that the C-like version is perhaps better:
sales_tax_amount = balance * state[42].tax_rate;
(ETA: Added semicolon.)
(ETA2: Fixed critical indexing bug.)
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#9> There are millions of English libraries available. You can look for the closest in Google Maps.
LOL!
Though I have a bug report. There are actually only 320k. This makes me feel sad.
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#10As someone who worked on a 35 million loc cobol and jcl system for several years in the late 90's, I don't find this to be funny at all. Cobol was purported to be readable with english language like syntax to make it more understandable. Giving gems such as: MULTIPLY TAX-RATE OF STATE(43) BY BALANCE GIVING SALES-TAX-AMOUNT. Note the period is sigificant.
I hear the successor language is much better.
It's called ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL.