Avril and Pat, (01)
Many years ago, Alan Perlis made a cogent remark about that idea: (02)
AS>> One of Zadeh's ideas was to convert NL into PNL [Precisified
>> Natural Language]. (03)
PH> And the best of luck to you and to Lotfi in actually managing
> to do this. (04)
Perlis, "Epigrams of Programming", _SIGPLAN Notices_, 1982: (05)
102. One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means." (06)
For this and more bits of wisdom than most of this email, see (07)
http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html (08)
John (09)
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