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That Paul Graham quote - “Programming languages are not merely technologies, but habits of mind as well.” Reminds me of an excellent Dijkstra quote, from A Dis
by noglorp 16y ago
That Paul Graham quote
- “Programming languages are not merely technologies, but habits of mind as well.”
Reminds me of an excellent Dijkstra quote, from A Discipline of Programming
- "A most important, but also a most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use."
- jforman 16y agoSpoken languages affect our thought patterns: http://www.newsweek.com/2009/07/08/what-s-in-a-word.html http://www.newsweek.com/2009/07/08/what-s-in-a-word.html It seems a natural extension that computing languages affect our logical thought patterns. In college, I took a class on intelligence testing (I gave a lot of IQ tests that semester). The prof told me that his experience was that computer programmers score noticeably higher on the Verbal IQ scale, moreso than on the Performance IQ scale (these are the two scales the WAIS is divided into).