Ask HN: Correlation of personality type and programming language preference?

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Is there a known correlation between personality type (e.g. Big Five, MBTI) and programming language preferences?

Has any research been done on this topic?

I suspect that there is some correlation between abstract thinking and preferring FP, and between concrete thinking and procedural programming. However, I know of no research to either support or disprove this.

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