At 3:02 PM -0700 on 9/27/01, Brian Stevens wrote:


>>P.S. as part of my degree requirements I should take a 'human' 
>>language.  For instance, for astronomy majors, German, Russian, or 
>>French is recommended.  Can anyone recommend a good language for 
>>Computer Science?  I can choose between French, German, Italian, 
>>Latin, and Spanish.
>>
>
>Heather,
>
>I've spent 28 years in the IT business and my fluency in Spanish has 
>helped a lot. Spanish is the native language of many countries and 
>is similar enough to Portugese and Italian to be useful in those 
>countries (and the Italians will understand your Spanish but you 
>might have some trouble the other direction) too. Spanish is 
>becoming more prevalent in the US, so this will be helpful if you 
>plan to work in the USA. There is much less demand for French, 
>German and other languages here in the States.

Thanks, and thanks to everyone else that replied.  I think I will go 
with Spanish since I had two years of it in high-school.  I also live 
in California where an English/Spanish bilingual capability is a 
major plus.

I would really love to learn German but it wouldn't help me much in a 
career setting, from what I gather.  Latin would be great as well but 
not very useful.  I have a dream of someday living in B.C. Canada 
where French would be very useful.

Again thanks to everyone, now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

-- 
Heather Donahue
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non sum qualis eram