Benefit and belief

[rusi]

On Oct 21, 5:31 am, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Redcat <red... at catfolks.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:49:26 -0700, Westley Martínez wrote:
>
> >> I think you need to speak German fluently to be a good programmer.
>
> > No, just Dutch :)
>
> Whatever language it be, you do need to be competent in a human
> language to be a good programmer. I speak only English of all human
> languages (can comprehend a smattering of phrases in a few other
> languages, but no fluency), and there are plenty of programmers who
> speak only X for some other X, but you do need the skill of coalescing
> thoughts into words. If nothing else, it makes everyone's lives easier
> when you ask for help :)
>
> ChrisA

The American programmer would profit more from learning Latin than
from learning yet another programming language.

Edsger Dijkstra in "On the fact that the Atlantic Ocean has two
sides"

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD611.html