is unknown syntax that much more of an issue than unknown function/library calls? I very much doubt it. If it were, the industry would have settled on languages

is unknown syntax that much more of an issue than unknown function/library calls? I very much doubt it. If it were, the industry would have settled on languages with way less syntax a while ago, e.g. Clojure. At least with unknown syntax there's usually some kind of keyword you can look up with Google. It's generally the non-syntactic sorts of unknowns that are much harder to figure out for a given codebase.