In thinking about machine language and communicating with machines:


When one thinks programmatically, something everyone does once in negotiation with the opaque materiality of machines, natural language is not much help. But the existence or otherwise of a regime of signs specific to this shift per se is not what is of sole importance here: what is of interest is what happens in the process of translation itself.

The computer is a medium, and software is an entity that occurs, in part, at a linguistic scale.

...for machines to address humans and things in their languages, humans and things must address machines in their languages. This need not always result simply in the lock-in of formalisms discussed earlier. One possible and often fortuitous result of this ambiguous situation is that a zone of indiscernibility (and hence undecidability) is created, where one doesn't quite know who is speaking whose language.

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So how long will it be before a machine writes its own language that we will unable to understand unless they teach it to us?

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Write Self-Modifying/Improving Programs