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wacko@power3.snu.ac.kr (Yoo Chul Chung) writes:

>blume@atomic.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume) wrote:
>>In article <43pi5g$hqc@feynman.comclin.com> glen@comclin.com (Glen Self) writes:
>>
>>   >> hello world!
>>   >>  
>>   >>    so what's the best language for the 21rst century?
>>   >>       what's your opinion on Modula-2, Modula-3, C or C++?
>>
>>   Free form spoken language of the user. No "programming" language
>>   required.
>>
>>   You asked about the best language - not the most likely :-)
>>
>>Natural language is hardly the `best' language, because it is too
>>ambiguous.  That's why mathematicians invented algebra and logic
>>calculi long before the advent of computers.

>But in a lot of cases, natural language would be a whole lot more
>productive. (Like, say to the computer "Make a web browser", and
>it spews out something like Netscape ;)

It depends on what the compile time for that is.  If it takes 100 years to 
compile, then it's more productive to do it by hand.