Not really. Looking at my code, I'll often see myself writing comments where I refer to functions and the like as "things". I never see written sentences as t

Not really. Looking at my code, I'll often see myself writing comments where I refer to functions and the like as "things". I never see written sentences as things, at least not in the same way. The closest analogy I can think of are magic spells. When I think of, say, a wizard, casting a spell, I don't think of him speaking some kind of magical language, he's uttering some words which have magical consequences. In this way a spell is a thing which results in an action. In the same way I use a programming language to write what I see as discrete blocks of code that cause something to happen. By contrast, "normal" languages are just used for communication. It's kinda hokey, and you probably won't be able to tell people that programming is like creating magical spells, but you asked.