My interest in the comment was whether learning programming is like learning for natural languages or mathematics. At least one study shows that both intuitions about learning programming turn out to be wrong lol:
https://boingboing.net/2020/12/30/study-finds-brain-activity...
Haskell, for one example, is much closer, the definitions in Haskell are very math-y: let this = that in what; f x = z where z = g x y. Even list comprehension in Haskell is much more like the actual math notation than what is implemented in Python.
I work with fairly large code base(s) with tons of legacy, as of late. In my case, I do the detective work - find alleged culprits, link them, present evidence, prove, etc.
I guess in next study one should do MRI for detectives and programmers working on legacy code base. ;)