Turkish and Japanese both typically end sentences with verbs, IIRC. There are probably several others; I really should just buy a copy of Comrie's _The World's

Turkish and Japanese both typically end sentences with verbs, IIRC. There are probably several others; I really should just buy a copy of Comrie's _The World's Major Languages_ already. In German (which I'm at least a little familiar with, unlike those two), auxiliary verbs stack at the end of the sentence: "I have eaten my breakfast." -> "Ich habe mein Frühstück gegessen." (lit. "I have my breakfast eaten.") It's unusual to have more than a couple, though - human languages typically don't nest very deeply. OTOH, comparing natural languages and programming languages may not be that useful - programming language design places a high priority on avoiding ambiguity, while natural languages assume have quite a bit of it. It may be better to consider programming languages as a kind of notation for math, logic, rules, instructions, declarations, etc. Kenneth Iverson had some interesting ideas about that. Another issue with method calls is that many things don't have a clear primary actor. In single-dispatch OOP languages, this turns into ugly workarounds (e.g. the Visitor pattern), "who owns this method?" debates, and tedious rewriting. Multimethods avoid that issue entirely.