The Sapir Whorf hypothesis (language defines what we can perceive and think) is mostly wrong for natural language, but true for programming. Computer languages don't differ in what they can do but in how they let us think.
I don’t know the current literature. But we don’t think in language, and our conceptual structures follow mostly the demands of the environment we operate on, not vice versa. Strong Sapir Whorf applies to abstract symbolic thought, not to perception.