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Phronesis · Jul 22, 2026

Code Is Intermediary

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The claim is that code sits between language and the machine. It does, and more literally than the phrase suggests: compilers have a stage actually named the intermediate representation. But 'intermediary to language' implies code is not language, and it is — programming languages sit inside the Chomsky hierarchy with the rest. The real difference is ambiguity: natural language tolerates…

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