If our field had settled on miminal syntaxes - such as the styles used by Forth, Lisp or even Smalltalk - it would be trivial to make programming languages for

If our field had settled on miminal syntaxes - such as the styles used by Forth, Lisp or even Smalltalk - it would be trivial to make programming languages for an audience that can't read or write English. Can't rename "if" or "foreach" in C#, however.