You beat me to it while I was busy making the same point. I prefer to assume that you started at least 13 minutes before I did :)
I like your second paragraph very much. A guy who'd been teaching programmers at a technical college for a long time told me that the only predictor he ever found for programming aptitude was a combination of math and English skills. Neither one in isolation was correlated with success, but if you were good at both then you were more likely to do well at programming.
I like your second paragraph very much. A guy who'd been teaching programmers at a technical college for a long time told me that the only predictor he ever found for programming aptitude was a combination of math and English skills. Neither one in isolation was correlated with success, but if you were good at both then you were more likely to do well at programming.