It achieves greatness by leveraging the hardware it runs on.
Imagine the code necessary for a Roomba-like device to implement "Run to the shop and buy me an apple, home grown and not bruised, but only if it's not stupid expensive" (one of the more trivial English programs.)
Yeah, but it doesn't mean that English is a great programming language. It rather means it's worse if even humans with so much builtin stuff have to learn so long to use mit more-or-less correctly. ;)
