A designed language is very precise so that thoughts formulated in it are universally understood – everyone will know exactly what you mean, with no place for misinterpretation. A disadvantage of this, I think, is limiting the ability to use metaphors, basically limiting human creativity – you end up with a clear language but one that lacks the “vibrancy” of a less clear language.

Consider Stephen Wolfram’s iterations of his computational language over the past thirty years. In this course, he contrasts human language evolution with computational language design. On the process of creating a computational language, he states:

… by designing the computational language, you are controlling the way that people choose to think about things.

What are the advantages and consequences of having a computational language that is designed?

Consistency v restrictions and boundaries

Interesting

Advantages of human languages designing the computational ones are it is not the other way around.

When computers start telling us what to speak, the slavery ethic will be returned with a vengence.

It is better we decide.

helping people while eventully replacing people

The consequences is that the creator of the computational languange can choose whatever they wishes to do with the languange. The advantage is that depending on what the creator want to do with the language it might help us to easily do a task.