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Not surprising at all, reading code is not like reading prose, not even doing math, is more like a puzzle building in the brain. There's a myriad things to ment
by SaintSeiya 2y ago
Not surprising at all, reading code is not like reading prose, not even doing math, is more like a puzzle building in the brain. There's a myriad things to mentally connect and substitute/translate in realtime in order to understand what the code is doing: each function, symbol, variable, statement, abstractions all the way down that makes reading code even more complex than writing it in the first place.
- itronitron 2y agoYes, and I think the argument could be made that code is the exact opposite of language, since it's a set of machine instructions that lay out what the computer will do and can't, or won't or shouldn't, be a metaphor for something else as happens in the domain of language.
- tgv 2y agoIt looks different and has a very different syntax and meaning. Practically yhe only thing it has in common is that it's also called "a language."