Your thought experiment shows how hard it would be. If we could do that, we could translate machine code into readable high-level programs.
To put it the other way around, it reveals something about how choice of programming language affects not only how we write a program, but what we write, and even how we think about the problem.
To put it the other way around, it reveals something about how choice of programming language affects not only how we write a program, but what we write, and even how we think about the problem.