Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018)
by DeathArrow on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:55AM
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I believe programming languages have few things in common with natural languages. Even though some experts in psychology claim that foreign language skills is a better indicator than math skills if someone will be good at learning programming languages or not.
Both programming languages and natural languages can be described in terms of Formal language theory and that's the most they have in common: they have words, grammar.
At MIT some people tried to write code using natural language: http://news.mit.edu/2013/writing-programs-using-ordinary-lan...
Both programming languages and natural languages can be described in terms of Formal language theory and that's the most they have in common: they have words, grammar.