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It’s interesting, but my ‘shifty claims’ sense is tingling. A couple of examples: > It’s a small Windows program, less than a megabyte in size. But it’s a complete development environment, including a unique interface, a simplified file manager, an elegant text editor, a handy hexadecimal dumper, a native-code-generating compiler/linker, and even a wysiwyg page layout facility (that we used to produce the documentation). One program doing all that on Windows is perhaps possible, but seems highly unlikely, even assuming that they built it to optimise for space.

> Lines of code: Plain English, 10; C/C++, 27 > (more than double in the C/C++ version) If you remove all the lines from the C++ version that are actually comments the count does down to 21 lines. If you remove the lines that are just whitespace or opening/closing brackets, the count goes down to 11. They have made a rather disingenuous comparison.

Also, of course, plain English is waaaaay too open to interpretation. They seemingly assume that everybody has the exact same definition of every word in their head, which is most assuredly not true (e.g. I lost marks on Logic 101 at university because it was a ‘logic in plain English’ course, and my idea of what some sentences meant differed from that of the markers).