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Right. The problem with natural-ish language processing is that it's:

   1. Inherently imprecise.
   2. Not true natural language processing, so it's not as forgiving of
      syntax errors as you'd think - making it even more difficult
      to try to say what you want to say.



#2 is right on. Making a language look like english seems silly to me. Spoken languages are ambiguous where programming languages can't be. Why try to make it look like english when really it behaves nothing like it?

Unless you had a parser that could truly read it like english.


I feel like I'm the only one that feels this way about Ruby.




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