I asked on Twitter for [where to start on considering programming languages _as languages_](https://twitter.com/martin_eve/status/1429415082199502852). Here are some of the best recommendations: * Binder, Jeffrey M., ‘Romantic Disciplinarity and the Rise of the Algorithm’, _Critical Inquiry_, 46.4 (2020), 813–34 * Chartier, Roger, ‘Languages, Books, and Reading from the Printed Word to the Digital Text’, trans.