[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.