> you want John Doe to delete something from the system? He might try to unplug the harddrive, maybe that's what he thinks "deleting" means. Highly unlikely that someone familiar with the system (even in an informal…
Agreed. It seems an appalling number of people agree with Dijkstra here - "we not only don't need natural language, we don't even want it." I'm sorry, but if I can express to a human being a set of directions to fill…
> you want John Doe to delete something from the system? He might try to unplug the harddrive, maybe that's what he thinks "deleting" means. Highly unlikely that someone familiar with the system (even in an informal…
Agreed. It seems an appalling number of people agree with Dijkstra here - "we not only don't need natural language, we don't even want it." I'm sorry, but if I can express to a human being a set of directions to fill…