Human choices are, yeah. My comments on this thread ultimately derive from an intro to programming with Java course 10+ years ago that I got a B- in because I never submitted the final project worth 20% of the grade. I bit off way more than I could chew in the design of the project, but ultimately gave up because of a human design choice called "type erasure" that my limited programming skills couldn't work around.

I've always kind of seen programming above the level of electrical engineering as working in a social system designed with decisions that seemed like a good idea to a person who isn't me. This point was driven home a year ago when taking an R course and reading the literature discussing the grammar of R.

But yeah, in addition there are physical limits for programming as well. That's what just came as a mild insight for me here. I theoretically had been aware of it, but as an end-user / non-programmer just hadn't really put it together and thought about it before.

Details. :)