The Anon on the blog said it best: "Erm. This is what scripting languages like Python are for. Until we have reasonable natural language parsers, things aren't going to get much simpler."
Indeed. The way that the conclusion was worded would (if I did not know better) have had me believing that C was a relatively new language rather that the common precursor to most modern languages.
... or maybe use commands that are a bit closer to natural syntax.