I think programming actually requires linguistic skills. When you program you are actually writing in a language, and you have to respect it's syntax and struct

I think programming actually requires linguistic skills. When you program you are actually writing in a language, and you have to respect it's syntax and structure. Therefore I don't think it should be compared with math. Unless you are writing a program for a very specific scientific problem that requires the elaboration of a mathematical model. Usually the computer does all the math, all you need to do is type the operations you need it to calculate. I'm not saying they're completely unrelated, I just think linguistic skills are more relevant in most cases