Sapir-Whorf in the conventionally conceived sense of language-as-local-limitation is clearly false, partly as it invalidates itself as an origin story. (How would you invent a language if you can't think outside of it?)
Sapir-Whorf in the sense of language-as-influence however is clearly true, even if academics occasionally state otherwise, because at their core all languages used by communities of a size greater than one individual rely upon semantics that are socially dictated.
Personally, perl screwed me up a lot more than BASIC - but who can argue with the expressive power of regex for text extraction and matching problems?
Sapir-Whorf in the sense of language-as-influence however is clearly true, even if academics occasionally state otherwise, because at their core all languages used by communities of a size greater than one individual rely upon semantics that are socially dictated.
Personally, perl screwed me up a lot more than BASIC - but who can argue with the expressive power of regex for text extraction and matching problems?
Wikipedia has a fun excerpt featuring PG (and Ruby) on just this question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Programm...