Re: Class Ideas Needed

Phil Edwards <news-uk@dircon.co.uk> wrote: >Sol Shapiro wrote: >> >> weiqigao@crl.com (Weiqi Gao) wrote: >> >> >Phil Edwards <news-uk@dircon.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >>Which reminds me of the best IT employment recommendation I've ever >> >>heard: employ people who did Latin at school. If you can learn a highly >> >>structured and dead language (one that you can't just 'wing it' in) >> >>you've probably got the right kind of brain for IT. >> >> >And you don't have to go all the way to Latin. Just hire someone with >> >correct Oxford English accent. Or anybody who has overcome his/her >> >local accent. >> >> >> You fellows better not talk to my employer. I forgot what little >> Latin I knew, and I still have my accent and no it isn't Oxford. -:) >FWIW this fellow completely disagrees with Weiqi Gao on the accent front. >Two of the best programmers I've ever met had very strong accents >(Vietnamese and Lancashire). Come to think of it, they didn't know much >Latin either... >-- >Phil Edwards phil@news400.com >Editor, NEWS/400.UK +44 (0)161 929 0777 The Vietnamese qualifies as someone who has overcome his/her local accent. :) I'm 50% right this time! -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao@crl.com