
…an very well understand your excitement, although, for lack of experience, I still cannot share it. I am far from delighted with the state of the art of programming today, and anyone suggesting an alternative has in in [sic] principle my sympathy — until, of course, he loses it again, like Terry Winograd did when he suggested natural language programming — “natural descriptions”! — as an alternative-. In the long run I have more faith in any rephrasing of the programming task that makes it more amen…