I think people like to say that programming languages aren't in the same vein as natural languages. But from my personal experience in both fields, I can't help

I think people like to say that programming languages aren't in the same vein as natural languages. But from my personal experience in both fields, I can't help but feel that they're clearly related. Natural languages are harder to learn, less regular and more general than programming languages, but whenever I study either, they bring to my mind the same sort of efforts and intuitions. Programming languages definitely don't replace foreign languages lessons in high schools, and so on. But the popular dismissal of "they have nothing to do with natural languages" is probably wrong, I think. My sample set is... fluent in French and English, studied/studying Spanish, Korean and Vietnamese, and similarly for imperative/functional/wtv paradigm PLs. There's clearly ressemblance in learning one or the other.