You’re saying c++ and python fit into a category of programs that is foundation-ally really just boxes and lines.

I’m saying that’s not the right way to look at it. Because you can make the opposing statement. You can say that programs that are boxes and lines are foundation-ally just text programs.

So because both contradictory statements can be made both aren’t really correct. There is no hierarchy. Boxes and lines is one concept and textual programming is another peer concept standing on equal footing. Both are isomorphic and thus translatable to each other.

The point of my post is to suggest that there are other concepts that occupy this equivalency space. Imagine a category of interchangeable interpretations of programming that are all translate-able between each other with no hierarchy. It’s similar to the space of human languages. All human languages don’t occupy a hierarchy yet all are isomorphic.