Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code
by mike_hearn on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:17AM
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Programming languages admit only unambiguous text. What he's proposing is more like EARS, Gherkin or Planguage.
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Not necessarily. I was intending it as a thought experiment illustrating why some kind of formal language (whether that mean technical jargon, unambiguous syntax, unambiguous semantics, conlangs, specification languages, or some combination thereof) will eventually arise from natural language - as it has countless times in the past, within mathematics (as referenced in TFA) and elsewhere. Gherkin is kind of nice though.