1. A method, comprising: identifying a first functional effect that would be produced in an apparatus by executing in the apparatus one or more source commands; determining whether the first functional effect is producible in the apparatus based on the apparatus executing one or more target commands, the one or more target commands being written in a different command language relative to the one or more source commands; and in response to determining that the first functional effect is producible in the apparatus based on the apparatus executing the one or more target commands, producing an output comprising the one or more target commands for execution by the apparatus, wherein the apparatus is a computer networking device; and the one or more source commands are presented to the computer networking device through a command line interface.