I'm not sure closeness to natural language is necessarily something you would want. I remember some super painful experiments with AppleScript (https://en.wikip

I'm not sure closeness to natural language is necessarily something you would want. I remember some super painful experiments with AppleScript (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript) 10 years ago, which really pushed me away from that ideal. The languageification of a programming language creates a lot of cruft. if the text returned of (display dialog "Username" default answer "") is userAns Similar issues can be seen in some of the monstrosities created as ruby DSLs, for example in rspec expect(true).to eq true where it becomes hard to understand what's actually going on.