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Are you aware that the language you speak is just "ruined" Old English, which is just "ruined" Germanic, which is "ruined" Indo-European? Yet, strangely, we had

• jandrese 7y ago
  That phrasing was somewhat tongue in cheek, but you've hit the main problem. Natural languages are constantly mixing, evolving, mutating, and diversifying. As a result they pick up loads of sometimes temporary inconsistencies and regional variances that simply require the person learning it to memorize an ever changing set of arbitrary rules. Computer languages on the other hand are far more static, so once you've learned its typically very simple grammar and vocabulary you are done save for a handful of tweaks in major version updates that happen only once every few years.