Long time ago, as part of my cognitive anthropology studies, i had a lot of data about relationships among natural languages and programming languages (e.g. Native Hindi speakers learned Prolog, Pascal and SQL much faster than native English speakers) and between/among programming languages (e.g. C programmers took much longer to learn Smalltalk than COBOL programmers — and relational database experts seldom gained even minimal proficiency in Smalltalk).
There is also a lot of data that correlates problem solving / design conceptualization with 'expressiveness' of a programming language — e.g. C programmers *_cannot_* write business application programs; too much translation between domain concepts and C grammatical constructs. Functional programmers are equally inept. The biggest single reason that OO never worked, is that programming profeciency/expertise in Java and C++ preclude your ability to think and design in objects. davew On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, at 9:00 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > Very much so. We hired a grad student a long time ago (he stayed with us > until he retired). He wrote great Pascal programs. He wrote great Pascal > programs in C++, and in JavaScript. The effect of your first programming > language on style, idioms, and your feelings about recursion and > encapsulation. > —Barry > On 6 Aug 2020, at 23:24, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: >> Nah. He means more than that. Even ordinary languages predispose users to >> one kind of discourse or another. I assume that programming languages do >> the same. >> >> >> >> N > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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