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Indirect relation. It forced me to think differently about language and syntax in general. For example, English (and many other languages) relies on a word orde
by Deinos 7y ago
Indirect relation. It forced me to think differently about language and syntax in general. For example, English (and many other languages) relies on a word order typology. Greek relies on inflection and declension over word order, which is wildly different.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoBetween taking a term in statistics/law 101/ and learning Greek I would always go for the first group. I am trilingual, but I have never found anything in natural languages to be useful for programming (well, apart from knowing English because most of the software is written in it). Moreover - learning syntax of a programming language is the easiest part. The hardest part for natural languages are your vocab/familiarity with the culture, and the hardest part of programming languages is your familiarity with the ecosystem/libraries.
- Insanity 7y agoSame, trilingual as well. There have been studies that show children with a bilingual upbringing tend to score higher in school. So it might indirectly help with programming, or at least help with learning to program.
- bawolff 7y agoI took a latin class in uni. I think it did help a bit because it made me think about the syntactic structure intellectually, where my native tounge the syntax comes intuitively. Not saying it magically made me a super programmer or anything, but i feel like it certainly didnt hurt my programming skill.