Agreed: if you're willing to be as limited with composing in english as you would be with programming in C, lack of recursion is not an issue. (there's a bit o

Agreed: if you're willing to be as limited with composing in english as you would be with programming in C, lack of recursion is not an issue. (there's a bit of a parallel, in that XVII english writers, not having readers as pressed for time as our current variant, make far more use of nested sub-clauses than we tend to; similarly, CPL, not having been as pressed for space as either BCPL or C, made far more use of nested sub-expressions than its successor languages)