My computer science department had a lecture by Guy Steele on Monday about designing programming languages. The definitions he presented at the start of the lecture provide a good argument for why code is expressive. All computer languages fit the same definition as any human language. They have a vocabulary of primitives and rules for how to combine primitives. At its most basic level, computer code is speech, like anything expressed in any human language.
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My computer science department had a lecture by Guy Steele on Monday about designing programming languages. The definitions he presented at the start of the lecture provide a good argument for why code is expressive. All computer languages fit the same definition as any human language. They have a vocabulary of primitives and rules for how to combine primitives. At its most basic level, computer code is speech, like anything expressed in any human language.