This morning was a great talk about where code is going directionally. It's interesting to note that a lot of the language enhancements (on any platform--Java, Ruby, Python, .NET) are centered around making code more like we think. Ideally, this is dynamic languages that center around Domain Specific Languages. I'd love to quote Neal's comment about COBOL verbatim, but I'll have to give you the gist:
"Will all this DSL (domain specific language) stuff mean developers will go away. No. COBOL was supposed to be the code language for the business person--and we all know what that did for the demand for programmers."
Note to self...check into the language workbench being developed by the guys at JetBrains.