I think in mathematics and programming, you often are working with an abstract idea or algorithm, projected onto the tools you are using. Be that the syntax/st

I think in mathematics and programming, you often are working with an abstract idea or algorithm, projected onto the tools you are using. Be that the syntax/style/limitations of a specific language, or a branch of mathematics. In that way, it is the same phenomenon of trying to express an abstract idea, projected onto the language in which you are speaking, with similar issues of syntax/style/limitations inherent to that language. However, a human language opens a whole dimension of culture and history that is somewhat truly inaccessible from the outside. In this way, math and programming don't appear to me to have an obvious analog.