>It could allow non-coders to simply describe an idea for a program and let the system build it Well that's the thing, "describing" an idea to the point where

>It could allow non-coders to simply describe an idea for a program and let the system build it Well that's the thing, "describing" an idea to the point where you are explicit enough to get the actual b behavior you want, you are basically writing code. Granted, you might have to add superfluous constructs and syntax to make it fit the programming languages we currently have, but that is a different kind of problem.