Competency in natural language correlates to competency in programming?

Question

Does competency in writing in a natural language correlate to competency in a programming language?I am wondering if there's opportunity in training english/french, anthropology, history, art majors who have demonstrated competency in writing in a natural language that have overlap in vocabulary and structure with programming languages?Or is competency in writing in a natural language orthogonal to competency in a programming language?

h2odragon · Accepted Answer

Problem solving, decomposition, and the ability to temporarily hold large amounts of information (documentation indexes / what functions are available? kinda things) are all more important than language ability, I think.People like "elegant" code, but may prefer more expressive, florid language for actual communication with other humans.