I knew what most of the BASIC keywords did on the computer before I understood their meaning in english. I'm not sure I even completely grasped that they were w

I knew what most of the BASIC keywords did on the computer before I understood their meaning in english. I'm not sure I even completely grasped that they were words in a language until then. But yeah, english is pretty undisputed as the lingua franca of most things computer, and so developing professionally beyond a certain threshold is difficult without english.