Re: Class Ideas Needed

weiqigao@crl.com (Weiqi Gao) wrote: >Phil Edwards <news-uk@dircon.co.uk> wrote: >>Gil Jaysmith wrote: >>> < lots of good stuff ending with: > >>> Anything non-language-specific but which mentions one or two generic >>> languages on the way. I'd rather have someone who understands _why_ C >>> works than someone who understands how it works. >>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. >-- >Weiqi Gao >weiqigao@crl.com 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. -:) Sol.