English is NOT a Programming Language 🤦
Douglas Crockford, the ‘JSON’ creator, is not smiling. He’s a bit worried about English being called a programming language – “it’s so ambiguous.”
In an exclusive interview with AIM, Crockford shared his discomfort with the Roman language being advocated for programming through natural language via AI chatbots and said that the fundamental law of programming is that the code has to be perfect. And English is far from perfect.
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