Nicely Put
That's the best encapsulation I've ever seen of the fallacy behind the dream of reading the genetic code.
We were told that once we had read the human genome, we could cure cancer. In fact, we don't even understand the grammar, let alone the philosophy, or, as you point out, the run-time environment!
Remember those gems of coding where if you filled the memory you didn't need an "end" statement, or overlapping code segments, or variables that deliberately input the wrong numerical value but rounding made it right...
The genetic code will be just like that, but more so.