I agree. > Over the years I've learnt quite a few languages, and what strikes me is that they're all so very alike. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis would seem to b

I agree. > Over the years I've learnt quite a few languages, and what strikes me is that they're all so very alike. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis would seem to be even more applicable to programming languages (and fields of mathematics) than to spoken language itself. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf