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I encourage it. I always assume I’m not the smartest person in the room… and if i turn out to be, i find a new room.

My whole thing about not being human readable was partially along the lines of it being encoded or cryptic as you said and not in narrative form (that wasn’t what i was referring to specifically btw). You have decode it either by direct reference or subconsciously translate it, which was why i added the caveat it is possible to read in small parts…
the body of something really complex like 3d gcode was what i was referring to because like you mentioned reading music and hearing it is an example a non-english language… but I’ll say this again, i don’t think anyone can read the body of gcode and see what it will do/is without the use of a visualizer… that’s the context of not human readable i was referring to. If it was a simple shape with multiple passes maybe because of pattern recognition. Honestly if someone can read 1,000,000 lines and see what it is without computer help, they wouldn’t be doing this.

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Do you have any relevant examples of pp that don’t though? I haven’t seen any at least because I’ve always heard that it’s hard coded in the CAD software to do that from the software to post processor. Never cared to investigate that internet factoid