Does Linguistic Aptitude = Programming Potential?

Icephreak asks: " I've been studying a foreign language for quite some time now and have been recently researching the more effective ways to approach learning the nuances of it in both spoken and written form. Not so surprisingly the same advice comes up again and again. More still, I remember being given the same dead ringer advice by a few programmer friends about learning programming languages. I find this lends a good hand to the observation presented in the famous Thomas Scoville article, "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature," about a surprising number of linguistically capable people gravitating to text-based operating environments and programming careers. What are your thoughts about a possible parallel between human and computer-based linguistics? Does a good command of one's spoken language loan leverage to becoming an effective programmer or computer operator in general? "

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Shouldn't that be...

[crisco]

...Does Linguistic Aptitude == Programming Potential?

No

[scotpurl]

Whilst someone may write in perfect syntax, that does not mean they have used the correct algorithms, or that the program has good construction. Form vs. substance.

For an extreme example, look to politicians, who say nothing perfectly.