SenseTalk

SenseTalk is a <a href="/facts/High-level_programming_language/smjECUhx">high-level</a> English-like <a href="/facts/Scripting_language/8pF4ajBL">scripting language</a> in the <a href="/facts/XTalk/yUsAnKeM">XTalk</a> family, that supports both <a href="/facts/Procedural_programming/7r5xz7kx">procedural</a> and <a href="/facts/Object-oriented_programming/TxNMEcao">object-oriented</a> paradigms. SenseTalk scripts are intended to be largely readable by ordinary people, including those with little to no training in programming. 
To this end, SenseTalk includes a number of language elements that provide functionality oriented towards human tasks rather than the underlying machine behavior. For example, to check whether a quantity is divisible by 3, the script could use the expression if quantity is divisible by 3 … or if quantity is a multiple of 3 …, with the emphasis being on readability and a focus on the human concept of divisibility. Compare this to more traditional programming languages (C, Java, Python, etc.) where the same test would typically be written as if (quantity % 3) == 0 …, with the focus being on the machine operations needed to determine the result. 
This shift in focus away from the underlying machine computation, towards an English-like description of the behavior in human terms leads to the description of SenseTalk as a “People Oriented Programming language”.

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