Computer programming can be regarded as a form of writing, apparently never intended as a communicative substitute for speech. ....
Each change in technologies for writing and for communication affects the boundaries given to the scriptorial.... That a written expression in the form of a computer program can, as a working automaton, be given a graphic display, which may include pictorial elements, may further modify the boundary between the pictorial and the scriptorial. ....
The received idea of written language as a representation of speech seems to have had a grip from which it was difficult, even partially, to escape until the communicative functions of spoken and written language were radically disturbed.
Julian Warner, From Writing to Computers (Routledge, 1994)
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