Which would punish people like me who will work across 3-4 languages daily and therefore often forget or confuse which library call does what in what language.
Same here. Sometimes I forgot how to define a class method. Is it def? Is it func?
I can write Rubyish, Goish, Pythonish or PHPish pseudocode, but the syntax will be only 90% correct. I remember distinguishing features(like Ruby blocks), but features that all language has always a blur.