crazy programming language thoughts

[David Boddie]

"Paul D. Fernhout" <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote in message news:<3f457487_7 at corp.newsgroups.com>...
> Ryan Lowe wrote:

[More "natural" language syntax]

> > i just want to say that i know i saw a similar idea in another language, a
> > few years ago, but damned if i remember where or what language. i guess the
> > language didnt make it:( but if anyone knows a language like this, PLEASE
> > let me know.
> 
> You may be thinking of Smalltalk.
>    http://www.smalltalk.org/
> although there are other languages with related phrasing (like in 
> HyperCard? and even COBOL?).

My initial recollection was that Inform had this sort of syntax but a quick
re-examination indicates otherwise:

http://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/index.html
http://www.inform-fiction.org/examples/index.html

It has an interesting syntax, particularly for class and function definitions.

David