On Apr 3, 5:39 pm, Nathan Rice <nathan.alexander.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Don't think "underlying", instead think "canonical". > > Ultimately, the answers to your questions exist in the world for you > to see. How does a surgeon describe a surgical procedure? How does a > chef describe a recipe? How does a carpenter describe the process of > building cabinets? Aside from specific words, they all use natural > language, and it works just fine.
A carpenter describes his carpentry-process in English A CSist describes his programming-process in English (at least all my CS books are in English) A carpenter uses his tools -- screwdriver, saw, planer --to do carpentry A programmer uses his tools to to programming -- one of which is called 'programming language' Doing programming without programming languages is like using toenails to tighten screws -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
