Sep-17-2021, 10:13 AM
@sdd:
Programming languages are focused on giving instructions to computers and therefore they lack a large number of features that are normally present in spoken languages and also both syntax and semantics are much simpler than in spoken languages. "Human readable" is of course good but "computer comprehensible" is more important.
Also, a programming language has no ambiguous constructs, no onomatopoetic expressions, no idiomatic expressions (which by the way differ between cultures and languages) and is thus much simpler than any spoken language.
The so called human readable languages are extremely complex and for most programmers a curse to use. I have programmed in COBOL and hated it.
I have also programmed in a large number of other programming languages and my favorites are Python(3), Groovy (a more modern variety of Java), Scheme (a Lisp variant). They are very different from each others but I like them for different reasons. Python for its simplicity, Groovy for its expressiveness and Scheme for its strictly functional approach.
All three of these languages are very well thought through and in my mind well constructed. Other languages I have used and liked:
Prolog (based om logic - both propositional and predicate logic), very far away from the logic you propose but well worth trying if you have studied formal logic.
Oz, a "multi paradigm" language, which was a lot of fun to use but not for production programming from my point of view.
Miranda, which is a lazy, purely functional programming language. Meaning that you write programs as sets of mathematical functions or equations and "lazy" means that computations are delayed until they are needed.
Try a number of languages and see for yourself, and then go back to Python and appreciate its simplicity and elegance!
Programming languages are focused on giving instructions to computers and therefore they lack a large number of features that are normally present in spoken languages and also both syntax and semantics are much simpler than in spoken languages. "Human readable" is of course good but "computer comprehensible" is more important.
Also, a programming language has no ambiguous constructs, no onomatopoetic expressions, no idiomatic expressions (which by the way differ between cultures and languages) and is thus much simpler than any spoken language.
The so called human readable languages are extremely complex and for most programmers a curse to use. I have programmed in COBOL and hated it.
I have also programmed in a large number of other programming languages and my favorites are Python(3), Groovy (a more modern variety of Java), Scheme (a Lisp variant). They are very different from each others but I like them for different reasons. Python for its simplicity, Groovy for its expressiveness and Scheme for its strictly functional approach.
All three of these languages are very well thought through and in my mind well constructed. Other languages I have used and liked:
Prolog (based om logic - both propositional and predicate logic), very far away from the logic you propose but well worth trying if you have studied formal logic.
Oz, a "multi paradigm" language, which was a lot of fun to use but not for production programming from my point of view.
Miranda, which is a lazy, purely functional programming language. Meaning that you write programs as sets of mathematical functions or equations and "lazy" means that computations are delayed until they are needed.
Try a number of languages and see for yourself, and then go back to Python and appreciate its simplicity and elegance!