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The computer executing part is the one that's both necessary and sufficient. The human reading part is neither. It's nice, important, and long-term indispensable - exactly the kind of thing economic pressures fight against.



The point (or at least as I read it) is that the human readability is more about the language being used.

The "necessary and sufficient" part is binary, and we're not doing that by hand any more.




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