The problem with written language is that there's an inherent level of ambiguity. Now, this is fine for stuff read by humans, as we're pretty good at resolving

The problem with written language is that there's an inherent level of ambiguity. Now, this is fine for stuff read by humans, as we're pretty good at resolving that ambiguity using context and our own personal experience. Computers, however, are not good at ambiguity. They require explicitly defined syntax, as they just can't handle the ambiguous nature of natural language (at least, not without a shitload of processing power for a LLM) Now, there's no reason we can't have an explicitly defined syntax that reads like normal written language. That's what SQL tries to do, after all. However, explicitly defined "natural" language has the tendency to get very unnatural very quickly. Human language is fluid and evolving in a way that a programming language just can't be. And no amount of emulating written language can eliminate the need to learn a programming language's syntax.