It was more than twenty years ago that Dijkstra wrote against the perils of anthropomorphism on science. And here we stand building whole industries on top of it.

But is it programming dominantly math? Or is it mainly human communication?

Maybe we swung too far to the the latter. I speculate that the current rise of functional programming can also be attributed to its  liberating effect - one is no longer expected to attribute proper intent to entities before a program can be seen to make sense.

As a constant reminder of that I'm tempted to use a different font for my programming.