cognitive psychology. PhD 
"Stimulus structures and mental representations in expert comprehension of computer programs" Pennington 1987. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010028587900077 …
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"The average [professional] FORTRAN programmer majored in computer science... the average COBOL programmer majored in social science or humanities." From a programmer profile in a psychological study, 1987. Wonder if the latter is still true for any language today.
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stata probably, and then R isn’t big w/cs people but i’d guess it’s more dominated by science vs soc sci
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Came here to say R for sure
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There are a few of us... but it certainly wasn't something I learned in any of my CS courses.
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Replace Fortran with C++/Java and COBOL with Python.
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Yes. Python is being taught to the masses, for data analysis.
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HyperTalk? AppleScript? Excel?
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Max/MSP is probably more popular among non-comp sic majors. Which is a shame, because it’s a really good programming language.
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Max/MSP was all over the place in art schools in France, and a de facto standard at l'IRCAM in the early 2000s.
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