That is true. Heck, eating a particular meal might affect the way you think about programming. But the article title, and the original HN title, is "Clojure - the perfect language to expand your brain?" So it's asking if Clojure is better at it than other languages/paradigms.
> So it's asking if Clojure is better at it than other languages/paradigms.
My argument was that there are such a wide variety of languages/frameworks/paradigms that it makes no sense to make such a claim.
Someone from a functional background ( lets say you know scheme or ML ) would get more from learning an OO language than from learning clojure. He'd learn more from learning assembly and seeing how data moves in and out of registers than from learning clojure.
Programming is such a wide topic. We get this posts all the time. Go will expand your mind more than anything or ruby will or F# or any other flavor of the day or even python.
It all depends on who you are and what you know.
In other words "Clojure - the perfect language to expand your brain?" is a silly assertion. There is no "perfect language" because everyone's brains are different because we all come with different backgrounds and expertise.
