Analysis: non-programmers don't naturally code to the Von Neumann machine architecture. They instead declaratively define higher-level rules and operations with a naive grammar strongly influenced by human language and experience.
I don't think "programmer" and "non-programmer" is a binary distinction. Most programmers don't think when iterating an array, but even experienced programmers sometimes take a non-programmer like approach when they see an unfamiliar problem.
In other words, if we could make a programming language that's more approachable to non-programmers, we might benefit everyone.
