I was describing first-year students who are reading code as though it's written in a foreign language, not anyone with some degree of competence. For obvious

I was describing first-year students who are reading code as though it's written in a foreign language, not anyone with some degree of competence. For obvious reasons, professionals should not be internally verbalizing as they write or read code, any more than a fluent French speaker should be internally translating from English as they speak French.