"we found 276 instances of interference that occurred due to faulty assumptions originating from knowledge about a different language" Saying learning a new pr

"we found 276 instances of interference that occurred due to faulty assumptions originating from knowledge about a different language" Saying learning a new programming language is hard because of that is like saying that English is hard to learn specifically because some verbs have exceptions for past tenses. I see no reason why that would be a predictor for how learning English is hard in general. Same can be said for programming languages, I see no reason why how someone deals with peculiarities of a language says anything about that language being hard to learn, in general.