@irie @i @mint Yeah; part of the design was based on the premise that the symbols would be hard and that making it plain language would allow managers to understand the code. That experiment failed, obviously, but Ada had some success at making sense to non-technical people.

> (total noob here)

http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/ and its much larger cousin, RosettaCode (which has a very large number of programs in a very large number of languages, e.g., https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Largest_prime_factor ) are pretty good for getting a feel for how a thing looks in different languages.