n the way useful commercial and industrial work have always been
conducted.

This is only partly true, and misleading - as I believe others and I have
pointed out.
Commercial and industrial work is normally specified in either special
non-natural (unnatural?) legal languages or other non-natural mechanisms
(accounts, engineering drawings, etc.) The SWIFT messages that banks use to
talk to one another are in no sense natural languages. This is one of the
interesting features of commercial and industrial work