Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018)
by filleduchaos on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:25PM
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The ability of the infant brain to pick up as many languages as surround it is a testament to its incredible plasticity, not an indicator that it's "easy".
If you doubt that, good luck becoming even halfway productive[0] with a second natural language as an adult in anything close to the amount of time it takes to become productive with a second programming language.
0. Productive, while a fairly weird word choice, can here be taken to mean "able to consistently engage in and with non-trivial communication" the way that productive in a programming language can be taken to mean the same for non-trivial features and tasks.
If you doubt that, good luck becoming even halfway productive[0] with a second natural language as an adult in anything close to the amount of time it takes to become productive with a second programming language.
0. Productive, while a fairly weird word choice, can here be taken to mean "able to consistently engage in and with non-trivial communication" the way that productive in a programming language can be taken to mean the same for non-trivial features and tasks.