Learning how to code is trivial next to the years it takes to learn a natural language. Tiny unambiguous vocabulary and syntax. Objectively, a programming language is a much smaller thing to learn that's simple by design.
If you polled people who learning programming and a second language in adulthood, I'd wager the vast majority of them would say learning the natural language was harder.
Of course "learning to program" is extremely imprecise. Learning enough of a language to use its control flow constructs is a much different bar than learning enough to write an Emacs plugin or whatever you might have in mind here.
If you polled people who learning programming and a second language in adulthood, I'd wager the vast majority of them would say learning the natural language was harder.
Of course "learning to program" is extremely imprecise. Learning enough of a language to use its control flow constructs is a much different bar than learning enough to write an Emacs plugin or whatever you might have in mind here.