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is it?

if you have a windows machine at hand (or maybe even just a working wine setup) you might give a look at this archive of Plain English prototype kindly provided by Osmosian: http://www.osmosian.com/cal-4700.zip

Note that there is no License, so it's basically all right reserved: I cannot even legally send you it by email, since it would be a way to distribute it: you can only download it from their website.

Anyway, even if you don't have a windows machine to run the exe, you can read the source code of "the compiler", "the desktop", "the finder" and so on. These are the name of the file containg the actual sources.

Also you can give a look at the instructions.pdf in documentation folder.

I do not think it has anything to do with AI or people commanding to computer.

It's simply a programming language with a sentence based syntax that is a proper subset of English.

There are two main aspects of it that I find VERY mind challenging:

1) the readability: anyone who can read English can read the compiler

2) the design choices

I don't know if this readability can be surpassed (while I'm sure that the tradeoff between readability and write-ability CAN be largely improved).

4389 lines for a compiler (or eve ~20000 if you include the noodle) proves that the language is NOT verbose as it looks.

No nested loop, nested if and no variable names sounds crazy design choice and yet... somehow they works.

I don't know.