> When I first learned C, I didn’t know English well enough to understand what “if” or “else” meant. I learned these words in the context of programming first,

> When I first learned C, I didn’t know English well enough to understand what “if” or “else” meant. I learned these words in the context of programming first, and natural language second. This experience is probably the same for most of the world’s programmers. This is the experience of learning to read music without speaking Italian. "Allegro ma non troppo" doesn't mean much in English.