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Re:Linguistics and Programming Languages by another-dave on Monday July 17, 2017 @02:05PM (#14790925)
You could potentially have a compiler that would infer meaning & only fail compilation if the fuzzy natural language terms were ambiguous in context — just like languages like Scala currently infer types when unambiguous.

Also, feels like Inform7 should be mentioned in any discussion on NLP and programming: http://inform7.com

First thing to mind based on the article's premise and hits a lot of the article's desired points already.

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Re:Linguistics and Programming Languages by didibus on Monday July 17, 2017 @04:47PM (#14792140)
Interesting. This feels like a great way to prototype functional requirements. Express the full process as an interactive fiction novel, and let people play it. Get feedback, iterate on the novel, until they are satisfied, then implement.
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Re:Linguistics and Programming Languages by slaymaker1907 on Monday July 17, 2017 @07:21PM (#14793131)
One thing that would be interesting is if you could write a compiler front end that was interactive so that it could give you better error messages.
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