I humbly but strongly disagree. You are the audience of your own Perl or C code even while you write it. That is why you choose to to specify the sequence of states you ultimately intend in a language more akin to your own higher level concepts (or at least a highly restricted and rule bound subset of such higher level concepts). The machine is not the audience of your C code. 'gcc' is not the audience of your C code. You, and potentially other humans, are the audience as well as the speaker. As high level as C or Perl is compared to machine code, it is vastly low level compared to English. It is no surprise that we choose to limit our use of C or Perl to specifying particular state sequences and choose higher level languages such as English to communicate in general.