[jkoudys]

Right on. What many, and especially this writer with his talk of tech being more "human" don't understand, is that code isn't a language _for computers_. It's a human language used to describe something unambiguously, to the point where it could be eventually interpreted as machine instructions.

People not understanding this has, in my experience, led to a lot of very bad decisions, especially around outsourcing. So many people in 2006 thought that American/Canadian developers would disappear in a few years as everything was outsourced. They didn't realise that writing a "comprehensive and precise spec" to send to a team of developers on the other side of the world, and have them implement _exactly_ what you asked them to, was actually creating more work.