I always enjoyed the ambiguity of the title of one of James Watson's books:
"Avoid Boring People" as to why "natural" languages should be avoided in
programming, not because they are inherently bad, but because they require
setting too large of a context to render most statements clear. OTH, I find
the abstemiousness of some who abjure statements such as x = 10 (in BASIC,
Fortran, et al.) because they are, allegedly, inherently ambiguous to be just
silly (cf. C, Pascal, R programmers, et al.). Context *is* everything.
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