 - and what
differentiates it from pre-commercial/industrial work.

And it is not just commercial work. As I have noted before on this list, one
of the features of the scientific revolution (in England at least) was 1) a
deep suspicion of natural languages, 2) a preference for the non-natural
language of mathematics and 3) failed attempts at producing a universal
structured language without the faults of natural language. [Note also there
was also a fundamental shift in IT at the time - from handwriting to
