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Re: Language illiteracy

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From: Mary D Johnson
Date: Tue, 03 May 1988 02:47
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I am in agreement on the desirability of knowing more than one
language. Pity the poor person (me, sometimes) who uses, teaches,
and consults on a Mac, IBM-PC and friends, and a VAX, in Pascal,
Basic, Fortran or Prolog (not to mention various applications) in
any one day--and I am considered a traitor (!?) in all those worlds.

Remember, when those Fortran only types bug you--in the land of the
blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Mary
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From: jonson@unicom.UUCP (Mary D Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Language illiteracy
Message-ID: <332@unicom.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 02:47:58 GMT
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Organization: Science Computer Center, MCC, Kentfield, CA
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Summary: different strokes for different folks