There was a time when 'a set of computer instructions' was called a 'routine'. Computer 'languages' are extremely restricted, and are primarily logical. Unlike

There was a time when 'a set of computer instructions' was called a 'routine'. Computer 'languages' are extremely restricted, and are primarily logical. Unlike human languages: English (and probably most others) has hundreds of words that can be used to nuance, imply, suggest, refine, gradate, distinguish, obscure, conceal, intimate, impute. If we don't know what they mean we can often skip right past them. (Computers don't do 'gist'.) Illogic is not only permitted, it's often essential.