Ask HN: Competency in natural language correlates to competency in programming?

Does competency in writing in a natural language correlate to competency in a programming language?

I am wondering if there's opportunity in training english/french, anthropology, history, art majors who have demonstrated competency in writing in a natural language that have overlap in vocabulary and structure with programming languages?

Or is competency in writing in a natural language orthogonal to competency in a programming language?