The title is rather disappointing as it implies that nobody at the nytimes understands the difference between computer code and programming language. As an anal

The title is rather disappointing as it implies that nobody at the nytimes understands the difference between computer code and programming language. As an analogy, computer code to programming language is what a book is to a human language. Would you ask if a book is a foreign language? A programming language is what computer code is written in. Just like a human language is what a book is written in. As for whether a programming language is a foreign language, the answer is an obvious no. Programming languages have mathematical/logical limitations of soundness, completeness, decidability, etc. If programming languages are a foreign languages, then so is algebra or calculus.