Interactive Fiction, (IF). Inform 7

[byo]

Really nice concept. I loved playing text games and that makes me download some games just for the nostalgia.

[Random]

Programming with natural language? Woah.. as in.. why?
It's like programming, but for people being too lazy to learn the programming language but eventually have to actually do more, because the syntax is more complex than "real" programming and you have to write ten times as much to yield the same result? Plus it is much more difficult to read which would make it very difficult to maintain..

Interesting idea at core and certainly fun to control a character IN text games.. but to program like that? Cumbersome?
The only thing I can see that would be somewhat entertaining is.. coupling it with voice recognition software. And then lying on the couch dictating your game to the computer.

But looking at the example, I see a simple script can quickly turn into a book. Sorry to be so pessimistic about this, but I fail to see the advantage.