> Languages, including programming languages, affect the way you think That's a nice-sounding hypothesis, but it's difficult to falsify. Steven Pinker reviewed

> Languages, including programming languages, affect the way you think That's a nice-sounding hypothesis, but it's difficult to falsify. Steven Pinker reviewed some of the scientific literature on that idea in "The Stuff of Thought" and it mostly holds up the null hypothesis. I believe that hypothesis is true in the trivial sense -- nearly everything you learn affects the way you think -- but I'm not convinced it's true in the more interesting sense.