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Ask HN: Competency in natural language correlates to competency in programming?
Does competency in writing in a natural language correlate to competency in a programming language?
I am wondering if there's opportunity in training english/french, anthropology, history, art majors who have demonstrated competency in writing in a natural language that have overlap in vocabulary and structure with programming languages?
Or is competency in writing in a natural language orthogonal to competency in a programming language?
- h2odragon 4y agoProblem solving, decomposition, and the ability to temporarily hold large amounts of information (documentation indexes / what functions are available? kinda things) are all more important than language ability, I think. People like "elegant" code, but may prefer more expressive, florid language for actual communication with other humans.
- RemoteIsHeaven 4y ago> Problem solving, decomposition, and the ability to temporarily hold large amounts of information (documentation indexes / what functions are available? kinda things) are all more important than language ability, I think Makes sense. I asked this question because I have been getting feedback from some managers (technical and non-technical) that good writers translate to good programmers, but I couldn't find any evidence/whitepaper/quality discussion on that