Issues

##Issues to addressed:

11) Need to choose a language name

"Plain English" is not available. It is the name of the Osmosian Order's language, at www.osmosian.com
"ENGLISH" (in capital letters) is trademarked for an early database product.

1) Need to choose an open-source license.

The license should be chosen to encourage ubiquity. The language should be usable for both open-source and close-source projects. This eliminates the GPL.

2) Need to choose a language to emit code in.

Plain English emits x86 assembler, with 32-bit Windows calls.
C might be a good choice.

Syntax issues:

3) Need delimiter for end-of-line comments

Plain English uses a backslash (\comment).
Visual Basic uses a single-quote ('comment) or REM comment.
C-ish languages use two forward slashes (//comment).

4) Need delimiter for in-line comments

Plain English uses square brackets ([comment]).
Visual Basic does not have this feature.
C-ish languages use (/comment/).

5) How to distinguish similar procedures

Plain English uses matching parenthetical notes in the procedure header and the procedure call.

10) Keywords

In addition to the keywords listed in the Syntax page, there are also a number of frequently used data structures and idioms.

Pretty printing issues:

6) Indent procedure bodies

7) Indent loop bodies

8) Line wrapping

9) Sort procedures