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We use the term "programming language," but I wonder how much like learning a real language it actually is. Will we see some of the same benefits as bilingual individuals?

Does learning multiple programming languages make it easier to learn other languages in adulthood?

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Well, there's language types, if you get into Comparative Programming Languages. There's imperative languages, query languages, object oriented languages, and mixes thereof. Maybe we could call them programming accents.

Imagine what that would do to dispel listing a key word list of languages ever touched, if we could just say, I know how to work with loops and functions, or I can compose systems of objects, or I know that a database can store, retrieve, and manipulate data. No more "I know C, C++, C++11, Javascript 5, Javascript 6, Python 2.7, Python 3.5!" If you're that dependent on people not looking up the syntax when they need to, you're either hacking into a computer at the site of the computer, or have no idea what the job entails.

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