I think that it's disingenuous to point out the many ways to call a function across half a dozen languages while completely ignoring how many ways there can be

I think that it's disingenuous to point out the many ways to call a function across half a dozen languages while completely ignoring how many ways there can be to say something just in English. Think of playing a text-based adventure game and how frustrating it can be trying to work out the exact phrase the designers had in mind. To make this work you'd essentially need a machine that could converse with you to build the program - the way that an engineer talks to a client to draw up a specification - which would be very cool. I like your idea for an editor add-on. Snippets taken one step further.