Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!norskog From: norskog@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: RE: English-only Speakers as Unclutu - (nf) Message-ID: <2666@fortune.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 19:06:29 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2666 Posted: Thu Mar 1 19:06:29 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 07:45:11 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 18 #R:hogpc:-34900:fortune:3400023:000:730 fortune!norskog Mar 1 13:44:00 1984 Tee hee! Computer Science is one of the few well-populated sciences/engineering disciplines which was not dominated by Germany, Russia or some other European country before and during the first half of the twentieth century; we Yanks/Canucks/Brits are very lucky that English is the hacker's lingua fraca. Up till the sixties, any serious science or engineering curriculum required strong technical reading proficiency in German or Russian. My father's (Berkeley Chem. Eng. '42) was in German. Lance "I spoke fluent Spanish at one time, too bad ATT won't sell UNIX south of the border" Norskog Fortune Systems, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA {cbosgd,hpda,harpo,sri-unix,amd70,decvax!ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!norskog