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I honestly doubt a business person would be able to read Clojure. I’ve been programming for 15 years and it doesn’t make any sense to me.


I think it depends a lot on the org. In enterprise software development, there's definitely a type of "business analyst" or "domain expert" who is capable of reading code, at least to the extent that the code resembles a flow chart. Clojure's small syntax means that it's fairly easy to write code that is obviously just a flow-chart in text form.


There is absolutely no chance I could show the enterprise spaghetti I work with to a domain expert and they would understand any of it.


I've been reading and writing English for half a century and Chinese doesn't make any sense to me, so I doubt any ordinary human could read it.


That’s quite the false equivalence.


How so?


Alphabet? Generality?




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