I think cognitive scientists might have figured this one out with natural languages ages ago
A programming language has a dual purpose: to enable you to express programs, and to shape the way you think about programming. Languages program you.
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Symbiotic relationship.
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Reminiscent of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis from Arrival
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Indeed, being a polyglot programmer is something that move this concept even further
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... I would even say, shape the way you think about everything. I remember my french and math teachers in middle school and high school saying I was thinking like a programmer... You end up seeing a lot of things as a pragmatical, logically structured series of events.
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Alan Perlis, the first to ever be awarded the Turing prize, said "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." I think that says it all.
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Abelson and Papert may be more on point herehttps://twitter.com/trylks/status/1313869845474291713 …
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Just living your life programs you.
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That’s kind of cool.
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