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Re:To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as re... by tremon on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:52AM (#25440732)
No, not at all. Natural language is imprecise, ambiguous and heavily contextual in both its structure and semantic meaning. All those qualities are sources of bugs or undefined behaviour in programming.

As others have said in this thread: programming "languages" are not like natural languages for a reason, and conciseness is a big part of that. The two fill a completely different role, and it should be obvious that the brain structures involved are different too.

To illustrate that: the only reason people are surprised that programming languages and natural languages are dissimilar is because our natural language is ambiguous: it calls them both "languages" even though they serve entirely different functions.

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