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0 pointsxigoi3y ago0 comments

There is a reason we don't have many programming languages where you can say “drop duplicates from titanic”.

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arez3y ago· 1 in thread

what's the reason?

xigoiOP3y ago

Natural language is ambiguous and doesn't represent nested structures well.

tlb3y ago

Programming languages need to be unambiguous, but voice interfaces to them don't have to be. With a voice interface, you can say something vague, see what it gets translated into, and either click Run or edit it.

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