I feel pretty confident that learning to program rewires the brain in some ways. I think if you take a random set of 18-year-olds with at least some math aptitu

I feel pretty confident that learning to program rewires the brain in some ways. I think if you take a random set of 18-year-olds with at least some math aptitude and give them some analytical tasks, then give some of them a year or so of good programming instruction and practice, you will see different areas light up on MRI on the same tasks. If he is saying programmers are born no different from other math/science/engineering types then I mostly agree. Of course if you compare those to the general population there are a lot of poet types who can't really learn math or symbolic systems so programmers are born somewhat different from the population as a whole.