> It was called cobol. Taking something that's lower level than C and replacing characters with words is not exactly what one'd call a plain English interface,

> It was called cobol. Taking something that's lower level than C and replacing characters with words is not exactly what one'd call a plain English interface, it's just being obnoxiously verbose. There's a stark difference between trying to somehow half-assedly hardcode this into a language, and having a language that is designed for debugging only, fairly strict in handling corner cases, and then having a natural language interface on top of it so nobody actually has to write the cancer that it likely ends up being.