Computers are connected with language and languages, including English, in many ways.
One thinks of the technical terms used by experts, semi-technical terms used in the popular press, the jargon used by pale sunken-eyed hackers... These different ways of talking about the domain of computing constitute computerspeak (perhaps computerwrite would be better in some contexts, but let's not be too pedantic).
We will discuss the differences between these varieties of computerspeak in a later session.
Computerspeak is ordinary language used to refer to computers and computing.
It is no accident that the symbolic codes used for programming computers are referred to as computer languages, programming languages: these languages are used by people, programmers, to define the operation of computers.
Computers and language also enter into a reverse relation. Computers are used to process language, i.e. to edit and automatically analyse, generate, translate texts and speech, both for practical and scientific purposes.
Finally, there is an analogical relation: in scientific contexts, for instance in Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Psycholinguistics, it is helpful to think of some operations performed by computers as being parallel to, and simplified versions of mental operations performed by human beings. From this point of view, a computer programme can be a useful `model' with which to study aspects of human symbolic behaviour, such as planning, reasoning, and the language skills.