http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=7977/cujcexp2011hyslop/hyslop.htm
"The primary purpose of source code is communication ... of intent from one programmer to another."
http://www.paulgraham.com/design.html
A programming language is first of all a tool for thinking in.
--Paul Graham
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=301373
Perl was designed so that code for a problem would map more easily to the programmer's way of thinking about it and C was designed so that code for a problem would map more easily to the machine's way of executing it.
--sauoq