>>Programming is about problem solving. It's one of the reasons I call myself a programmer, rather than a VFP programmer. (Ed's old sig "I'm Winston Wolf. I solve problems." comes to mind). The language used to solve the problem is nothing more than a tool.
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>I agree. But it’s not like eating ice cream. Unless the programmer is you or Ed and the person eating Ice Cream is severely physically handicapped. By that I mean it is very hard for them to get the spoon from the bowl or container to their mouth. You and Ed and several others are not what I would consider normal. :-) (a compliment)
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Jeff, lots of people are multilingual; exposure to a second (third, fourth...) natural language over time will result in assimilation and adaptation of the new language without concious effort. And there's far more syntactic and lexical difference in natural languyage than in formal languages (which is what ultimately you're talking about in programming) and a far greater range of paradigm shifts in spoken lanuguage (eg basic concepts such as measured time, ownership, quantification may differ more widely, or be entirely inexpressible, in translating between natural language.) People pick up additional languages as well as shifts in their native dialect constantly without effort.

Some of us have brains that are wired simpler, so that the formal language constructs are more obvious and easier to isolate and relate than others. There are some acdvantages to thinking about things at a low level at times.

Comprende?