Really? A claim like this needs some evidence. George Orwell novels don't count.

I never read it. I understand there were pigs involved.

I recommend Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, which clarifies to what extent language can influence thought.

I liked Pinker when I read other stuff of his but I haven't got to that book yet.. Now, back to thinking about good modularity and DRY while writing OISC machine code.

(In case my meaning was not clear, let me be explicit. You made the response "A claim like this needs some evidence" to a comment that actually referred to evidence. Even if you think there is other, stronger, evidence that contradicts what we can infer from observing the influence of language on programmers it is still poor conversational form to reply with "needs non-Orwell evidence".)