Ooooh, yes, I remember talking about this article with a coworker some months ago.
> we are greatly constrained by the [metaphors] used to describe the problem.
Linguistic relativity might be controversial, but this, I feel, is a "correct" kernel of that idea. (Forgive the slight recombining of your sentiment!)
If you use for example category theory words like “monad” you know what it can do but even better, what you can’t do which is very important when building algorithms. Sure you can say tacos instead but something gets lost.
> we are greatly constrained by the [metaphors] used to describe the problem.
Linguistic relativity might be controversial, but this, I feel, is a "correct" kernel of that idea. (Forgive the slight recombining of your sentiment!)