#2 is right on. Making a language look like english seems silly to me. Spoken languages are ambiguous where programming languages can't be. Why try to make it l

#2 is right on. Making a language look like english seems silly to me. Spoken languages are ambiguous where programming languages can't be. Why try to make it look like english when really it behaves nothing like it? Unless you had a parser that could truly read it like english.