The use of English as a programming language

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 9 , Issue 3 (March 1966) table of contents

Pages: 228 - 230

Year of Publication: 1966

ISSN:0001-0782

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Jean E. Sammet

IBM, Cambridge, MA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this talk is to make a personal plea, backed up by some practical comments, for the use of English or anyone else's natural language as a programming language. This seems to be a suitable subject for the conference, since whatever definition of pragmatics is decided upon, it certainly seems to be tied in with the users of any programming language and what the language means to them.

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	Bruce W. Ballard , John C. Lusth , Nancy L. Tinkham, LDC-1: a transportable, knowledge-based natural language processor for office environments, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), v.2 n.1, p.1-25, Jan. 1984
	Bruce W. Ballard, How shall we evaluate prototype natural language processors?, ACM SIGSOC Bulletin, v.13 n.2-3, p.21-26, 1982
	Cristina Videira Lopes , Paul Dourish , David H. Lorenz , Karl Lieberherr, Beyond AOP: toward naturalistic programming, Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, October 26-30, 2003, Anaheim, CA, USA
	Cristina Videira Lopes , Paul Dourish , David H. Lorenz , Karl Lieberherr, Beyond AOP: toward naturalistic programming, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.38 n.12, December 2003
	Bruce W. Ballard , Alan W. Biermann, Programming in natural language: “NLC” as a prototype, Proceedings of the 1979 annual conference, p.228-237, January 1979
	Alan W. Biermann , Bruce W. Ballard, Toward natural language computation, Computational Linguistics, v.6 n.2, p.71-86, April-June 1980
	F. B. Thompson , B. H. Dostert, The future of specialized languages, Proceedings of the November 16-18, 1971, fall joint computer conference, November 16-18, 1971, Las Vegas, Nevada
	Greg Little , Robert C. Miller, Translating keyword commands into executable code, Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, October 15-18, 2006, Montreux, Switzerland

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