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

Answer 1

Sanskrit comes close to what you describe. It has no redundancies, it was the first language to follow BNF which is the basis of all modern prog. language grammar, and it shares a common Indo-European descent with English

Answer 2

I'd say SQL or COBOL.

Answer 3

HyperTalk - the language behind Apple's HyperCard.

 on mouseUp
   put "100,100" into pos
   repeat with x = 1 to the number of card buttons
     set the location of card button x to pos
     add 15 to item 1 of pos
   end repeat
 end mouseUp

HyperTalk on Wikipedia

Answer 4

COBOL reads a lot like English

000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID.     HELLOWORLD.
000300
000400*
000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000900
001000 DATA DIVISION.
001100 FILE SECTION.
001200
100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100100
100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
100400     DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
100500     DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10.
100600     STOP RUN.
100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
100800     EXIT.

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Answer 5

the syntax of VB.NET is very near to English language

Answer 6

gherkin is a domain specific language to describe executable bdd-specifications. It is used among other by cucumber (ruby) and specflow (dotnet).

Example

    Feature: Browsing
        In order to see who's been on the site
        As a user
        I want to be able to view the list of posts

    Scenario: Navigation to homepage
        When I navigate to /Guestbook
        Then I should be on the guestbook page

    Scenario: Viewing existing entries
        Given I am on the guestbook page
        Then I should see a list of guestbook entries
            And guestbook entries have an author
            And guestbook entries have a posted date
            And guestbook entries have a comment

    Scenario: Most recent entries are displayed first
        Given we have the following existing entries
            | Name      | Comment      | Posted date       |
            | Mr. A     | I like A     | 2008-10-01 09:20  |
            | Mrs. B    | I like B     | 2010-03-05 02:15  |
            | Dr. C     | I like C     | 2010-02-20 12:21  |
          And I am on the guestbook page
        Then the guestbook entries includes the following, in this order
            | Name      | Comment      | Posted date       |
            | Mrs. B    | I like B     | 2010-03-05 02:15  |
            | Dr. C     | I like C     | 2010-02-20 12:21  |
            | Mr. A     | I like A     | 2008-10-01 09:20  |