"Programs are pretty close to abstract maths" For you and many people, yes. For me and many other people, no. I sometimes write math when I program, but more o

"Programs are pretty close to abstract maths" For you and many people, yes. For me and many other people, no. I sometimes write math when I program, but more often, I manage. I assign roles and responsibilities. I orchestrate communications. I try to keep conflicts to a minimum. I often automate the way I think and I rarely think mathematically (that's how I wrote my Master's thesis and this is how I'm writing my Ph.D. thesis. I mean, the programs behind the theses). "because the tools you use shape the way you think." Yes... When you are starting to program or when you haven't been seriously exposed to other programming languages and paradigms, you are right. But I think I've been exposed to enough of these and made a conscious decision. For example, to me, prolog was immediately natural during my bachelor degree, but haskell felt more constrained. Still, if I was primarily writing code in Lisp or haskell, I hope my pseudocode would be different. Otherwise, it would be quite a waste of time translating imperative programming to functional programming.