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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (128772)7/31/2005 12:56:59 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 793854
 

Dr. Summers has all kinds of academic credentials and honors. But in this area, he is just like everyone else. He does not know very much. He is plain stooopid.

Never heard of him. But was is your point? I thought you were claiming that understanding English led to good software skills, so I just provided one counterexample, as I am not sure that I agree with your point, although I'm willing to concede it may be a factor.

There actually have been some theories put forward by language experts claiming a link between language & areas of abstract reasoning such as algorithms, but I don't know much about them. This is of course different from the sense you had in mind, but is an argument that ones native language might predispose one to certain lines of work. I look at Kanji (sp??) and consider the complexity and think that surely educating young minds along those lines must have some affect over learning our much simpler, but more abstract system. But what exactly?

I.e. 5000 years ago the Sumerians made a greater leap in symbol abstraction than the Chinese & Japanese have today. Our system builds on the same abstraction concepts of the Sumerians. Does learning one system vs. the other as a child alter in subtle ways the manner in which our minds work. Not my field, so I have no idea.
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