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Re:Code is not a foreign language, and high schools shouldn'... by bane on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:38PM (#19426073)
The language syntax is often pretty small for most programming languages, but the vocabulary (libraries) are often enormous.

Most professional programmers program as if they were speaking with a dictionary and thesaurus at hand and stopped in the middle of every sentence to look up a work or usage.

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Re:Code is not a foreign language, and high schools shouldn'... by airstrike on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:42PM (#19426102)
> Most professional programmers program as if they were speaking with a dictionary and thesaurus at hand and stopped in the middle of every sentence to look up a work or usage.

Which is probably why code that feels like you're reading prose is hard to come by

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