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[John Feltham]

G'day Hugh,

On 17/11/2010, at 8:39 AM, HUGH wrote:



I was sort of half understanding it till I came to "translates it into 
syntaxa breakthrough in usability".  I defy anyone to say what that means.

Using the bits that make some kind of sense, I get the impression the thing 
is a system that (I think they say) will accept input in a form of human 
language - as opposed to computer language such as C, Fortran, Pascal, etc - 
and translate it into some "computer language". This will save having to 
learn a computer language.  As computer languages save having to learn 
machine code, it's more of the same, only more expensive.  Its input will 
have to have a formal structure, so really it's just another computer 
language.  Of course it might all mean something completely different.


You lost me with your typo [syntaxa], since corrected by Google and then I found out that you're roughly correct in your analysis.

But see...

http://download.cnet.com/download-blog/ 

and find... Wolfram gives Mathematica 8 a human touch


ooroo

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