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From Assembly (1949) to Julia (2012), all programming languages have some type of syntactical representation of a human-programmer-readable, non-compilable string.

The ubiquity of comments becomes even more intriguing when we take into account that programming languages have evolved so much in terms of readability.

Why haven't we created (or stumbled upon) a programming language that has no need for human readable comments? Why isn't it possible to write self-documenting code?

Language is a broad and deeply complex topic, but for the scope of this blog post, we will only be discussing the concept of “flexibility”.

If you have ever been in a high school English class, you'll remember the anxiety of searching through the web for synonyms to make your essays sound more "edu-professional".

You’d replace good with satisfactory, or sad with despondent in order to look like you possessed a tighter grasp on the English language than any seventeen year old has any right having.