What programming language is most like natural language? [closed]

Answer 1

I believe William Shakespeare was the world's best programmer...

The Shakespeare Programming Language

Answer 2

Forth is reverse-Polish based, and would work naturally for some people.

"Learn Forth quickly I will" - Yoda.

Answer 3

The language Richard Pryor used to transfer millions of dollars with in Superman III was very close:

> TRANSFER $1,000,000 DOLLARS TO WEBSTER'S ACCOUNT.... NOW

;-)

EDIT: characters corrected ;-)

Answer 4

COBOL was created with the specific intent of being like natural language (English in this case)

Answer 5

That is called "pseudocode". You use whatever means necessary to communicate the intent of the code (you have written or will later write).

Any programming language has some features that are ambiguous to outsiders.

Answer 6

I thought of Eiffel. Quote from here:

Raphael Simon, lead software engineer for Eiffel Software, said the language was designed so that one could use natural language to write the program.

See for example the 99 bottles of beer program.

I wouldn't say it's the "most" natural, but I find it rather natural.