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> I'm really sorry to be harsh but if you don't use programming languages and have never written a transpiler, why should anyone read your comment?

Lots of reasons. If you can't come up with one then you're not the intended audience, and that's fine.

I made the comment for several reasons. Here's two: (1) I had high confidence that my understanding is correct and wanted to share my knowledge with others. (2) In case my understanding wasn't correct I was hoping someone would correct me, resulting in both me and others learning some interesting nuance.

As for why you in particular should read my comment: Curiosity. There are few traits that are as important to strategic thinking, creativity and success in reaching ones goals as curiosity. When I see something that doesn't map to my understanding of the world my reaction is to wonder whether I'm missing something. It has served me incredibly well so far.

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