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On a related note, recent brain research found that computer programming involve the logic related brain areas, not maths nor language as long suspected by prev

• alexvoda 4y ago
  Not surprising. The primary activity when programming is problem solving. The solution is then expressed in a programming language. This is unlike writing prose, poetry or miscellaneous text where the form of the text is important. Compared to natural languages, programming languages are very simple. There are no issues of formality, tone, etc. to care about. Unless you are programming in Intercal or Shakespear. Imagine what a programming language that had things like phatic expressions would be like. On the other hand, typing can be seen as analogous to grammatical gendering. In this case, English would probably be dynamically typed or at the very least has type inference whereas German or Russian would be statically typed without any inference (since you need to match the gender of multiple parts of a sentence in what is known as agreement). This also reminds me of Hungarian notation. No wonder programmers never liked static typing the same way nobody learning German ever liked the der/die/das overload.