> Every software build I've been a part of is conceived first and fleshed out in English. I'd bet a lot of money you're wrong about this. It's conceived mostly

> Every software build I've been a part of is conceived first and fleshed out in English. I'd bet a lot of money you're wrong about this. It's conceived mostly in some non-verbal thought-like pseudo-language inside someone's brain, and then it's poorly translated into English. It's fleshed out in code. That's when the real details were figured out. Maybe not while actually typing in code -- if very experienced programmers were involved, they fleshed it out using the mental models they learned from their years of programming, in their head, and then they poorly translated that to English, and then they sat down and typed it correctly again without English being involved.