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People
write algorithms, but some other agent will
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execute
them … so they must be expressed in some
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language
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English
and other natural languages are poor choices
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Ambiguous
-- multiple interpretations of an utterance
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“Her lasagna is not very hot”
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Imprecise
-- exact meanings have not been assigned to
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words and sentences: all
deliberate speed
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Recipes
try: stir is not a synonym for fold or beat
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Programming
languages are formal notations
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specifically
designed for specifying algorithms
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Visual
Basic is the language we’ll use
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