I did mention features of English which make it more condusive to being such an archetype (i.e. that computer languages immitate English). I don't think it is

I did mention features of English which make it more condusive to being such an archetype (i.e. that computer languages immitate English). I don't think it is the only choice. I think in general that creole languages and their descendants (that includes English btw) have significant syntactic advantages in this regard. The issue is morphological simplicity. This doesn't mean I am a fan of such languages from a natural language perspective, btw... I am just saying if I was choosing a language to build a computer language based on, I would not choose a language where imperative tenses of verbs might vary depending on number of addressees, for example.... As I think of it, it might be very interesting to look at computer language design based on other natural languages and see what other problems or opportunities come up. For example, I wonder about slot-based polysynthetic languages (like Algonquin). A computer language based on that would have to be fundamentally different from what we have now.