The GWT problem and Cucumber's issues remind me of COBOL or even AppleScript. They worked out an English-like syntax that looks great in a demo, but winds up be

The GWT problem and Cucumber's issues remind me of COBOL or even AppleScript. They worked out an English-like syntax that looks great in a demo, but winds up being harder to write code in than most other programming languages. And the reason seems to be that it's requiring us to express ideas in a vastly simplified language. In order to do that, we have to expand a complex idea to many simpler ideas. That's making us do the job of the compiler! Real high-level languages are rich with many idioms and structures and the compiler then reduces that to simpler ISA.