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I've almost exclusively experienced and heard of coding being taught as plain English concepts (even in countries where English is not the primary language), so
by bryans 5y ago
I've almost exclusively experienced and heard of coding being taught as plain English concepts (even in countries where English is not the primary language), so it's not exactly some rare commentary made only by coding elitists.
The reality is that programming languages have historically been designed as left-to-right sequences of nouns, verbs and adjectives, in a way that mimics the sentence organization of English. Certain words may be replaced with special characters, but it still reads the same.
- Tostino 5y agoI think that is a very reductionist view of the decisions that go into creating programming languages just to make your point.
- bryans 5y agoQuite an absurd misinterpretation of what I said. The only point I made was that the mimicry of spoken language is what gives context to allow us to learn problem solving more easily. Nobody is trying to go into the intricacies of how programming languages are developed, because that's not the point of the conversation. But thank you for acting like a classic HN elitist who thinks that pedantry for the sake of pedantry is more important than anything else in the world.