The fact that programming languages often resemble English words like body or if is a convenient accommodation for our puny human meatbrains, which are much better at remembering commands that ...

The [Rzeppa] family has started a plain English compiler. It runs under Windows and appears to be fairly capable. Plain language programming isn’t exactly a new idea.

In a mysterious blog post Wolfram Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram promises a knowledge-based programming language that can do just about anything under the sun.

This spring, the Law School’s English Bridge students happen to all be from China. The coronavirus is keeping the students in quarantine, so it may be that this online class is the one thing in their ...