> Open source programs could be more like motivated explanations of computation.

It is already that. Every time a method/function is created, a structure is defined, a variable is added, a file is created or renamed,… It’s all for the purpose of human communication. The computer only need binary in a single file.

But people feels like they should be able to jumpninto curl code without any understanding of networking, or linux code with no knowlede of computer architecture. Few code are meant for total beginners.