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The language and its documentation are almost entirely free of jargon and symbols other than a subset of English punctuation. Only the period, comma, colon, and semicolon are commonly used. The minus sign functions as a unary minus for negating variables.
The Order's blog makes a case for the language being no more verbose than C or C++. This
"Not" and the suffix "n't" are recognized and understood as you'd expect.
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Some words are ignored. Development of the language started with the realization that human infants ignore a lot of words when they're starting to learn to understand language.
Specifying parameters is more verbose than in human English. Example: a number and another number and a third number and a fourth number. It could be shortened, but typically, you set up a structure and pass that to a routine. For instance, you set up a box and then "Draw the box with the black color." Routines with more than 2 parameters are rare in CAL-4700.
Wording tends to differ from English in some other ways too. For example, "Draw the box with the black color", rather than "Draw the box in black." FIXME: check if "in/into/to" is interpreted differently from "with". If not, the latter example is possible.
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