I accept your point and agree in principle! However, I think there's a lot of fertile ground to be researched and experimented with here. I'm mostly pushing back against the parent's assertion that "putting natural language encoding between [a developer] and the bytes" is inherently of no net benefit.

(I'd also argue many programming languages introduce ambiguity, are riddled with undefined behaviors, subject to 'dialects', and distorted by issues similar to those affecting natural languages. C++ perhaps most notoriously. This is something I'd rather debate in good humor in person, though, as I suspect this could be an entirely separate problem.. ;-))

Very maddening, some regular phrasees can be interpreted in multitude of ways, often contradictory. Even with full context it's still ambiguous