So we can focus on the point at hand let's (and I will never argue with it as toggle option):
Hi Art, No argument with your example, but it misses completely the [fresh] point at hand I was hoping to discuss. Not where the burden lies, but rather the implications and influence of computational literacy upon everyday language and culture. No blame to programmers or language developers intended. We've been over that ground too many times already I think. But from a media-culture/language perspective, yes programming expects learned behaviors which could be construed as [almost] in denial of contemporary speech and use of language. The bait in my post was use of the word 'human'. Python of course is as 100% a human language as much as English is. But since we all learn to speak [and count] before we can program, there are implicit precedents set there/then. These lead to the some of the 'counter-intuitive allegations about programming. The axis of happy new year question is what happens if/when /programming is learned early enough that it is a fundamental part of literacy and language. How might everyday language be changed? And reverse-engineering the thought, how differently might programming languages be learnt, taught and improved...? - Jason