I don't think so personally, but do you think BBCode is appropriate as a chatbot authoring language?
[io] * told me to say *
[o]Why would *1 tell you to say "*2"?[/o]
[o]Did you say "*2" after *1 told you to?[/o]
[/io]
Really it's just enclosing things in tags - AIML could be laid out the same way as that's just XML.
<category>
<pattern>HELLO THERE</pattern>
<template>Hey, you are you ?</template>
</category>
[c]
[p]HELLO THERE[/p]
[t]Hey, how are you ?[/t]
[/c]
With ElfScript I used short command names to minimise typing and ease readability.