> but it is drastically different in how it's interpreted by that other actor: computers are (designed to be) fairly rigid in interpretation (the frontier of th

> but it is drastically different in how it's interpreted by that other actor: computers are (designed to be) fairly rigid in interpretation (the frontier of that not being so is fascinating but in its infancy), so that there's little-to-no variance in the output. Yes, I like to tell people that English is a programming language with no official spec and a billion partially incompatible compilers.