> Code is not prose written in a natural language, yet it has a set of fixed rules (a grammar), certain forms that most programmers will understand as natural a

> Code is not prose written in a natural language, yet it has a set of fixed rules (a grammar), certain forms that most programmers will understand as natural and others that, while formally correct, will sound hard to grasp. The prose has to "execute" in the interpreter of the reader's imagination. Not much stack space there: go easy on the pronouns.