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ndsipa_pomu
I'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this.
superfish
It'd be fun to play code golf too. It's probably highly dependent on the niceness of the "English compiler".
FranchuFranchu
Legalese is just obfuscated English
fuzztester
MBAese too.

e.g. "at this point in time" for "now" or "right now"

Google MBA Speak generator.

olooney
I wrote an implementation of this programming language last month:

https://github.com/olooney/fourth_gen

It is a terrible, terrible idea, but it does work. It uses GPT-4 to read Python docstrings and magically implement working functions from English descriptions.

tromp
> This program writes "Hello World" (without quotes) to the output.

> This program outputs Hello World.

So that alternative doesn't quite work for writing "its own source" without quotes...

johnisgood
Lojban may be the only spoken language you could write a programming language in, a programmable spoken language... English, not so much due to its inherent limitations related to natural languages. :P