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POIs functional programming the next step towards natural-language programming?
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copied!<p>This is my very first question so I am a bit nervous about it because I am not sure whether I get the meaning across well enough. Anyhow, here we go....</p> <p>Whenever new milestones in programming have been reached it seems they always have had one goal in common: to make it easier for programmers, well, to program.</p> <p>Machine language, opcodes/mnemonics, procedures/functions, structs, classes (OOP) etc. always helped, in their time, to plan, structure and code programs in a more natural, understandable and better maintainable way.</p> <p>Of course functional programming is by no means a novelty but it seems that it has experienced a sort of renaissance in recent years. I also believe that FP will get an enormous boost when Microsoft will add F# to their mainstream programming languages.</p> <p>Returning to my original question, I believe that ultimately programming will be done in a natural language (English) with very few restrictions or rules. The compiler will be part of an AI/NLP system that extracts information from the code or should I say text and transforms it into an intermediate language which the compiler can compile.</p> <p>So, does FP take programming closer to natural-language programming or is it rather an obstacle and mainstream OOP will lead us faster to natural-language programming?</p> <p>This question should not be used to discuss the useability or feasability of natural-language programming because only the future will tell. </p>

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