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Is it absurd that the maker of a tech product controls it by writing it a list of plain language guidelines? or am I out of touch?
@fasterandworse @dgerard I am pretty sure I have seen programming the computer in plain English used as a selling point for various products since the 1970s at least
the best part is that most of these products are ex-products
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That was explicitly a goal of COBOL, and (guessing here) probably Commercial Translator as well.