No, the Tractatus could still be applicable to computer programming. The problem with Wittgenstein's earlier work is that his idea of language was that it model

No, the Tractatus could still be applicable to computer programming. The problem with Wittgenstein's earlier work is that his idea of language was that it modelled reality. However, many computer programs really are trying to model something correctly, or at least that's what the Java and UML books tell us. ;) So the Tractatus could apply. But the latter Wittgenstein is lurking in most real-world programs -- what they do isn't anything about describing a ideal model, it's just... what they do. Anyway, I doubt any of this will help anyone write or understand computing better, but it's fun to think about.