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js8
20 hours ago
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on: The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
Some compilers can do that, but only in a very controlled way. For example Haskell's deriving or inference of the correct method called on typeclass. Or the Prolog/Datalog/SQL - they will also fill in many details on how to arrive at an answer.
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