Program code is primarily a medium for explaining ideas to other humans. (It does also have to run, but that’s secondary.)https://twitter.com/The_Lagrangian/status/1096449079490547712 …
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Generally, sloppier. More like mathematical notation. When we write things for people to understand we tend to rely heavily on their ability to guess what we mean from context.
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But mostly the answer is that when we want other people to understand, we write prose.
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