What programming language is the most English-like?

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Published on 2010-06-18T05:27:26Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 5:33 UTC
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I'm mainly a Python programmer, and it is often described as being "executable pseudo-code". I have used a little bit of AppleScript, which seems to be the most English-like programming language I have ever seen, because almost operators can be words, and it lets you use "the" anywhere (for example, this stupid example I just came up with:

firstnumber = 1
secondnumber = 2
if the firstnumber is equal to the secondnumber then 
    set the sum to 5
end if

is a valid AppleScript program. Are there any programming languages that are even more English-like than these?

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