greetings! am thoroughly enjoying the latest podcast episode on agentsheets (https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/073), and the discussion of “is programming a Language(TM)” and the history of how it came to be that programming was considered language in the sense of “has a formal grammar” reminded me of this paper by Ian Arawjo on the history of programming notation and its cultural referents (e.g., typewriters, and how it moved away from more “visual” forms and converged around “programming as typing on a typewriter”: https://ianarawjo.com/docs/To_Write_Code_Arawjo_CHI2020.pdf i found the resulting frame of programming as translation work of “mapping one culture to another” provocative too!

This looks super interesting! Definitely adding it to my list to read for potential future episodes. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome!