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		jiggy2011 on Aug 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the foolishness of “natural language programmin... Wouldn't this imply that the "buy" instruction is stateful?

andreasvc on Aug 25, 2014 [–]

No. It's just the implied object of the second "buy" which is ambiguous.

jiggy2011 on Aug 25, 2014 | [–]

But then the programmer would come home empty handed, without even buying the milk.

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