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You're overestimating how readable any programming language is to non-programmers.

• saagarjha 7y ago
  With decent identifiers you can kind of guess the purpose of things without understanding anything else about it. A file with words such as "latitude" and "coordinate" and "distance" in it is probably something to do with maps, for example.
  • neonate 7y ago
    Non-programmers making sense of code in this way is extremely rare. I don't think this is a priority in programming language design, the same way that making dashboards accessible to non-pilots is not a priority in airplane design. That would certainly be a poor reason to sacrifice major improvements in airplane efficiency or safety. Designing simpler dashboards for student pilots as a learning device is of course a different matter.
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