> programming is closer to math, not linguistics

It's worth pointing out that actual linguistics is not unlike maths, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory, etc. There's an awful lot of vibes-and-feels nonsense about language in the popular press, which one ought not confuse with linguistics proper.

In fact, as Casey mentions in this talk, a lot of the earliest ideas in software architecture came from trying to parse languages - both human and computer.

Yes, of course there is a connection through the Chomskian mathematization of syntax.

But when we think about solving problems over domains and relations (e.g think about realizing that the problem of parsing requires traversing a tree like structure) we are dealing with mathematical-logical structures, not linguistic concepts. This is what I meant. I've seen a lot of OOP code that tried desperately to make code reflect the fuzzier relationships between linguistic concepts, rather than the precise ones of logical structure (a lot of this is a consequence of over-encapsulation and excessive information hiding)

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