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I'm interested in linguistics in a linguistic way. Languages tell something about a culture. For examply by what subjects have many words and which don't. Or how seperated ranks in society are by the amount of (used) formality forms. The level of directness might corolate to the level of pragmatism. What foreign influence there is can be partly seen by loanwords and writing symbols. Etc. Etc.
But computer languages are hardly linguistic, most of them are just English in a specific syntax. I love computers, but they interest me in a technical way. Even the best AI relies on switches turning off and on, yes and no's, 1's and 0's. It's black and white logical mathmatics. In the end, programming languages are little more than "the creator thought this was a good way to handle which switches should go on and off", and you just use what's most practical for your use-case. That is, quantum computers aside, but even those are similar in that really. Just more complex.