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Re:To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as re... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:03PM (#25438558)
Human language tends to be pretty fuzzy. Code seems to be quite precise and very pedantic about details.

In human language, you can play with idioms, metaphors, double entendre, etc.

In writing code, you miss one symbol and it breaks.

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Re:To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as re... by magusdei on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:57AM (#25440399)
You can play in a similar way with code. It's just that other developers will hate you for it.
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Re:To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as re... by astrange on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:25AM (#25441737)
It was pretty popular when Ruby and JS came on the scene. I think it’s receded now but there are still tools like Homebrew that are worse than what came before, but people switched to them because they were written in Ruby instead of Perl, and somehow that made it cool.
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