> coding voodoo Well, we've sacrificed the precision of actual programming languages for the ease of English prose interpreted by a non-deterministic black box

> coding voodoo Well, we've sacrificed the precision of actual programming languages for the ease of English prose interpreted by a non-deterministic black box that we can't reliably measure the outputs of. It's only natural that people are trying to determine the magical incantations required to get correct, consistent results.