The idea that learning and using certain computer languages can influence how people solve problems resonates with the famous Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which holds that spoken languages differ in ...

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The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

It’s all Greek to me. That might be someone’s reaction to trying to understand computer programming language such as JavaScript or Python. So why shouldn’t it be considered a foreign ...