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ELI5: Why are natural language programming languages not the standard yet?
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1. that seems like a lot of work when instead you could just type shorthand that everyone understands.

2. natural languages are ambiguous

3. isn't parsing natural languages NP-complete or something
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Because everything else works just as well.
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>>51565003
yes
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>>51564973
Eh?
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>ELI5
>>>/r/eddit
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>>51565003
>2. natural languages are ambiguous
context sensitive at least
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>>51564973
>more reserved words than cobol
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Because when I type a statement in my program, I want to know exactly what it does, which requires me to know how it is processed. Natural language processing means I can never be certain my code is interpreted how I think it is.
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Thanks
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>>51565254
SORRY.
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>>51568895
Interactions like this with robots is too cute.
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ask reddit you fag
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"Sorry" really should be a keyword.
>It's okay
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