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They share the same node, language, so I don't see they could avoid comparison. In fact, programming language could be argued to be a specialization of spoken language. After all we're not punching in bytes by hand on control cards anymore.



Indeed, the blurring of this distinction became the means by which Larry Wall earned his college degree!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Education

He talks about it in more depth in this interview: http://youtu.be/aNAtbYSxzuA




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