Re: Class Ideas Needed

Posted in 1996

Phil Edwards — Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:32:37 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

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