[Uchikoma]

This will exactly end like Infocom adventures. They are mostly nice, but quite often you hunt for the exact phrase the parser understood (but to be fair, it happened more often in Magnetic Scrolls).

But would you call using a text adventure (put blue ball in red box) programming?

[jcl]

I was thinking the same thing. And it's no coincidence that Inform 7 -- the latest iteration of a popular text adventure game programming language -- is perhaps the most extreme example of a programming language pretending to be English.

Here's the actual source code of a game: http://inform7.com/learn/eg/bronze/source.html

Of course, it's really a precise programming language that happens to read like English; the same text might not work if it were rearranged into semantically equivalent English.