I'm Dutch, and in the Netherlands, for a certain level of high school, Latin and Greek are required.
Learning Latin, and its framework (grammar) has been very helpful to me in improving my German, Italian, French and Portuguese (I like languages). However: it's important to have a solid grasp on one (mother tongue) language.
If you look at LearnXinY, you can see a lot of semantic parallels between most programming languages.
I've been developing web apps since 1996 (Perl > ColdFusion > PHP and mainly Ruby/Rails these days) and found that, intuitively, it's not so much the programming language itself, but rather the act of programming itself that helps me think more clearly.
Learning Latin, and its framework (grammar) has been very helpful to me in improving my German, Italian, French and Portuguese (I like languages). However: it's important to have a solid grasp on one (mother tongue) language.
If you look at LearnXinY, you can see a lot of semantic parallels between most programming languages.
I've been developing web apps since 1996 (Perl > ColdFusion > PHP and mainly Ruby/Rails these days) and found that, intuitively, it's not so much the programming language itself, but rather the act of programming itself that helps me think more clearly.