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Re:The Next 50 Years of Databases (2015) by microcolonel on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:59PM (#21509339)
Unambiguous? Maybe. Specific enough to execute as programs? not nearly so much. I mean, humans regularly misinterpret verbal commands, and we're effectively the best thing at understanding and language that exists in nature. Half of the disagreements on HN result from misinterpretation of very specific, rather unambiguous statements.
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Re:The Next 50 Years of Databases (2015) by blotter_paper on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:20PM (#21509996)
> Half of the disagreements on HN result from misinterpretation of very specific, rather unambiguous statements.

Disagree, it's almost certainly more or less than half; it's incredibly unlikely that these statements would account for exactly half of disagreements. Furthermore the statements in question are rather specific and very unambiguous, not the other way around.

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Re:The Next 50 Years of Databases (2015) by microcolonel on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:22PM (#21510014)
> Furthermore the statements in question are rather specific and very unambiguous, not the other way around.

Or rather, the ambiguity is around how specific the statements are.

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