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You have no idea what an abstraction is. You're describing the technological sophistication that comes with maturing science and completely missing out on the details. C was a hack because UNIX's authors couldn't fit a Fortran compiler onto their target machine. Automatic memory management predates C. Natural-language processing has been tried every AI summer; it was big in the 60s and big in the 80s (and big in the 90s in Japan) and will continue to be big until AI winter starts again.
Natural-language utterances do not have an intended or canonical semantics, and pretending otherwise is merely delaying the painful lesson. If one wants to program a computer — a machine which deals only in details — then one must be prepared to specify those details. There is no alternative to specification and English is a shitty medium for it.