[lxgr]

> The only big difference is that high level programming languages are still deterministic but natural language is not.

Arguably, determinism isn't everything in programming: It's very possible to have perfectly deterministic, yet highly surprising (in terms of actual vs. implied semantics to a human reader) code.

In other words, the axis "high/low level of abstraction" is orthogonal to the "deterministic/probabilistic" one.

[raincole]

Yes, but determinism is still very important in this case. It means you only need to memorize the surprising behavior once (like literally every single senior programmer has memorized their programming language's quirks even they don't want to).

Without determinism, learning becomes less rewarding.