I remember in high school I tried to get them to count my Intro to Java class as a foreign language, to no avail.

In hindsight, I kind of agree with their decision. Obviously I love programming (hence why I'm always on HN), but I don't think about C/Haskell/Lisp/etc. in the same way that I think about English.

While I understand that there are semantics that are superficially similar, I feel programming is closer to mathematics than English, and I don't think anyone is suggesting that we count algebra as a foreign language.