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I have a personal theory that if you know Arabic language- or any other language that are considered “hard” to learn like Chinese or Japanese-, if you know it,

I have a personal theory that if you know Arabic language- or any other language that are considered “hard” to learn like Chinese or Japanese-, if you know it, then you are going to learn programming languages quicker than the average. Would love to see if there are studies to support that but I have seen it personally.

maxglute 3y ago
Searching "sapphire whorf hypothesis" + programming will probably yield some relevant results. My psych a rusty, I remember example include Chinese monosyllable numbers easier in "chunk" in short term memory, so enables greater mental computation in some contexts.