Rokeby, David2022-01-062022-01-062003https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18569This article looks at issues of language and encoding from the perspective of computer programming. Particular attention is paid to the different relationships between code and encoder/decoder in computer coding and human language coding. Examples of the writer/artist's work and working experience are used to illuminate these differences and a role for computers as philosophical prostheses is proposed.engCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 GenericcomputerCodingcommunication theory79110.25969/mediarep/176141617-6901