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Yes, but we also have non-programming vernacular that we use outside of the act of programming that encompasses CS concepts. It's a bit like having a specialized vocabulary to describe another language.

I can conversationally say to fellow computer scientist "I organized the pieces of data into a red-black tree" and that's totally programming language agnostic and conforming to English syntax while still requiring a hefty amount of CS knowledge to grasp the actually meaning of what was said.




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