Is Code Language?

^(Mis-)Quotes on Code

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff . He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination."— Fred Brooks

"A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct." — Donald Knuth

"A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question." — Grace Hopper

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace

"Because the process of knowing is inseparable from "languaging," "coding," in the new education, language code (i.e., all forms of symbolic codification) is regarded as the mediator of all human perception and is used as a unifying and continuing focus of all student inquiry." — Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner