[agentultra]

They share the same node, language, so I don't see they could avoid comparison. In fact, programming language could be argued to be a specialization of spoken language. After all we're not punching in bytes by hand on control cards anymore.

[hercynium]

Indeed, the blurring of this distinction became the means by which Larry Wall earned his college degree!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Education

He talks about it in more depth in this interview: http://youtu.be/aNAtbYSxzuA