It isn’t, but the confusion is the author’s, not the commenter’s. Although the author situates the article as discussing the programming languages equivalent of

It isn’t, but the confusion is the author’s, not the commenter’s. Although the author situates the article as discussing the programming languages equivalent of pragmatics in linguistics (explicitly coupling it with syntax and semantics), the author actually focuses on practical, everyday concerns, like how programmers will steer away from using things a language makes difficult to use, or the inefficiencies resulting from bad tooling, or tedium-avoidance by programmers.