1THE INTERNAL LANGUAGE OF COMPUTERS
The whole point of language is to be able to communicate information. Your job as a programmer is to give instructions to computers. They don’t understand our language, so you have to learn theirs.
Human language is the product of thousands of years of evolution. We don’t know a lot about how it evolved, since early language development wasn’t advanced to the point that history could be recorded. (Apparently nobody wrote ballads about language development.) Computer languages are a different story, as they’re a fairly recent invention that occurred long after the development of human language, which enables ...
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