Spoken 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

Spoken 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).