I have never liked the term “programming language”. Niklaus Wirth said somewhere that a better term is “programming notation”, and that has always stayed with m

I have never liked the term “programming language”. Niklaus Wirth said somewhere that a better term is “programming notation”, and that has always stayed with me. That said, I like to understand a program (especially my own) by explaining it in English. There, I'm using generative, rather than recognition, processing. There might be some fruitful research in asking people to explain how programs work, rather than what they do, under fMRI.