@nightpool@cybre.space to the computers
@nightpool@cybre.space be it to the hardware directly or to the software intermediaries that go between us and the hardware, we are communicating to a computer what we want it to do. communication with other humans about what we want the computer to do is equally important but i would hesitate to call it primary
@beadsland @nightpool@cybre.space "absent the compiler", you're just writing text into a document when you're writing code, so yeah, i guess i agree that in that strange vacuum you've constructed the primary utility of code is communication with other humans
@beadsland @nightpool@cybre.space just because the workers can't directly use the original plans doesn't mean the goal of the plans isn't for the house to be built
@beadsland @nightpool@cybre.space you're still communicating to the computer what you want to happen! even if there's indirection involved! if im at a restaurant in barcelona with an english to german translator, a german to polish translator, a polish to mandarin translator, and a mandarin to spanish translator, my intent is still to get some fucking soup eventually
@beadsland @nightpool@cybre.space i genuinely can't follow your logic at all at this point and i'm getting agitated so i need to step away