D as a betterC a game changer ?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 11:56:24 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> And is the way every programmer learns their non-first 
> language. All newly learned programming languages are merged 
> into a person's "head language" which is based on their first 
> language but then evolves as new languages, especially of new 
> computational mode, are learned.
>
> See Marian Petre and others work over the last 30 years for 
> scientific evidence of this.

Hm…  I have some problem with this.  I can see how it would apply 
to Algol-like languages, but for I don't see how it fits on very 
different concepts like SQL/datalog/prolog, scheme, machine 
language, OO etc…

There might be some empirical issues here as _most_ programmers 
would move to something similar, but statistical significance 
doesn't imply causality…