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Re:The Hypercard Legacy by jcl on Friday October 31, 2014 @05:21PM (#8541196)
If you want to see programming-as-carefully-formatted-English taken to the extreme, check out Inform 7, a system for writing interactive fiction. For example, here is the complete source of a game:

http://inform7.com/learn/eg/glass/source.txt

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Re:The Hypercard Legacy by rspeer on Friday October 31, 2014 @11:29PM (#8542098)
Anyone remember the cryptic document that _why posted in the form of a printer spool [1], years after his disappearance from programming? It was a sort of fictional, surrealist autobiography.

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/136875051/why-s-complete-printer-s...

I was grinning madly when I noticed -- in the part where he's exploring an island -- the page written in syntactically valid Inform 7.

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