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Foundations of the case for natural-language programming

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Halpern, Mark
Abstract	A running debate, mostly subterranean, has long been going on over the suitability of natural language for use as a programming language. From time to time the debate surfaces in the form of sharp exchanges at technical conferences and strong letters to the journals, but these casual encounters have been insufficient even to make clear to the general reader what the issues are, let alone to resolve them. The absence of open and lively debate between those who favor and those who oppose natural-language programming has left the problem to be dealt with by each language designer as best he can, without benefit of others' experience and ideas. Two opposite but equally undesirable ways of handling the conflict are in common use: one is a mutual turning of backs by the two parties, as may be seen in the increasingly wide gulf between research and practice in the design of programming languages; the other is a tendency toward superficial, makeshift compromise, with the usual result of satisfying no one. The possibility that the issues underlying the controversy are too fundamental to allow any useful exchange between the two parties cannot be dismissed, but it seems worth some effort to find out; the result should be at least a clearer idea of what we are disagreeing about.
Starting Page	639
Ending Page	649
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/1464291.1464360
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1966-11-07
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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