Sort of? It depends on the language but a lot of times syntax is just a fancy sugared way to invoke weird functions - i.e. `if (a === b)` might just be `if (a.equals(b))`. I work building tools to make other people more productive so a lot of the time I'll build out functionality I'm implementing using sugared syntax to make it cleaner. In some languages this isn't possible but most modern languages allow metaprogramming of some form or another.