I agree to the extent that both are communicating between people but I've never felt them to be the same. You could probably say much more about the differences but I think it boils down to purpose and context. I can't compare it to learning a spoken language because I only have a little experience of that. The broad and vague purpose of spoken language is more about what you are communicating. With people you're sharing information, experiences, feelings or simply social interaction . Only some of that is about instructing people what to do or how to do something. Code is only about relating precise and limited instructions on how to achieve some goal whether it's part of a large system or a single much more focussed task. What surprises me about the article - maybe even shocking - is Not using logic seems wrong to me but it definitely explains a lot about my own code 😄 It’s not the same as language, and it’s not the same as math and logic