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I took a very non-traditional English class my freshman year of college, and we had an assignment that required us to use this language. From a traditional programming standpoint, I found this platform very difficult to use, though I was never really got too deep into what it was capable of.

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> I found this platform very difficult to use

Indeed. When you read IF coded in Inform it all seems to make sense, but when you have to program it you realize you're just learning a very difficult and idiosyncratic syntax.

Some Inform code would make excellent poetry, however.

Yup. I don't know about excellent, but here's one I like:

The lady is in the lake,

The lady is holding her breath...

When the lady is sad and the window is plaid

Then end the game in death.

More: http://slesinsky.org/brian/code/i7_poetry.html

It's similar to Applescript in that it's a "read-only" language.

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