Dijkstra on Language

A video I saw on "Dijkstra on foolishness of Natural Language Programming" (April 11, 2025) helpfully exposed me to some of Dijkstra's ideas on language. It's a short piece, but I'd like to focus on the central paragraphs: In order to make machines significantly easier to use, it has been proposed (to try) to design machines that we could instruct in our native tongues. This would, admittedly,