Hmm, the last time I commented on HN on this rent-a-coder hilarity, someone proposed "writing a new scripting language" within a week. I suggested that this was actually doable within a week. One could just concoct some simple language with curly braces that maps 1-to-1 with a procedural subset of Python, then output Python to run it.
The result? I was downvoted by some less than informed individuals who thought there was some deep fundamental difference between curly braces languages and whitespace significant ones. What The!?... On HN!? This was before Coffeescript was a widely known thing as it is today. Think what you'd like about Zed Shaw, but his "DB Invasion" idea has some merit.