Programming Languages are not Languages

Programming Languages are not Languages September 01 2018 In my previous article I talked about how the metaphors used to present a problem, set the stage for how we are going to talk about the problem. They provide a framework for our thinking, on one side helping us solve it, and on another side they constraining the solutions we find. I ended the article by saying that we are so used to call Programming Languages “languages” that we don’t even stop for a second to think about the implications that are ca