English?

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That's an older language, like FORTRAN or PDP-10 assembly, and its popularity among programmers has been declining for some time now. English was used exensively on the internet prior to the early ninties. It then began losing ground when America Online and Prodigy began pushing a then-proprietary subset of the language. While old-timers claimed that the new code wasn't as readable or as maintainable as traditional ANSI English, its loose syntax and less complex data structures quickly gained the affection of the less technically-inclined masses who now constitute a majority of Internet users.

Though standards-compliant, well-commented English is unpopular among today's programmers, the old language is still popular in university settings, where it is used alongside other esoteric languages like FORTRAN and LISP. It also remains popular in Europe, where it is still commonly taught in schools and in universities across the continent.

~Some guy named 'Steve'


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