Wednesday, March 30th, 2005, 6:10 am
Programming by Natural Language
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n relation to the previous item, research in MIT has produced a small application which turns English into computer code.
This small milestone can have an effect on the entry bar for programmers. However, one would argue that this the strand of work is pointless. Ambiguous languages can now (supposedly) turn into (ambiguous) code, which cannot be trusted. Will one be able to rely on translated ‘code’ of this kind? It’s the equivalent of sending E-mail from speech-to-text recognition without prior proof-reading.
A little sarcasm of mine; click image to view
