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I do believe we could simulate that, for some users, but we could never do it in any meaningful way in the context of this discussion.

For instance, we could make a language that interpreted "plus", "+", "adds", and "pslu" as addition operators. But that would only be increasing the amount of operators.

Even if we had an adaptive algorithm that would figure out what people meant in context, it would only reduce the amount of syntax errors.

What is really referred to here is the elements of the program. In this example, it would be our decision to add. If that elemental decision was wrong, the program would flip.

Another case is to consider numbers. If a letter needs to be mailed to every fifth address, and the elemental data, 5, is altered in any way, the program will fail. So while our algorithm could pick up 'fiev' and 'fifth', 4 or fourth will blow it.




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