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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
we're definitely getting close to thread hijacking here  Of course, if we were discussing what types of languages SciFi authors thought the world would be using in the year 2000 then that would be an entirely different matter ... |
In a
couple of his books, Robert Heinlein suggested that in the future, computers would be programmed in
Loglan. Which is a synthetic human language that just might be precise enough to use as a programming language.
Nowadays, there is more energy focused on the spin-off language
Lojban.