[ttctciyf]

It achieves greatness by leveraging the hardware it runs on.

Imagine the code necessary for a Roomba-like device to implement "Run to the shop and buy me an apple, home grown and not bruised, but only if it's not stupid expensive" (one of the more trivial English programs.)

[valenterry]

You forgot to say to pay attention to cars on the street. The executor of your code just got executed in a car accident.

Oh, you mean car evasion is built in? Why isn't the same complexity then built into the roomba? Apples and oranges.

[ttctciyf]

Kind of my point, roombas need code for things like how to cross a road, what a bruised apple looks like.

Humans have this in well, wetware I guess :)

[valenterry]

Yeah, but it doesn't mean that English is a great programming language. It rather means it's worse if even humans with so much builtin stuff have to learn so long to use mit more-or-less correctly. ;)

[ttctciyf]

As usual, it's the whole platform not the specific language that's great :)