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To: neolib who wrote (128793)	8/1/2005 10:31:41 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 793851

I thought you were claiming that understanding English led to good software skills, More to the point that software development has been dominated by people in the english speaking world. People proficient in the english language have advantages and access to all the discussions, documentation, source code, and literature on current state of the art software development. After all, programming languages and high level compilers require acceptance and critical mass. Your counter example carries with it a mixed bag of assumptions. It cannot be used to compare apples to apples. I look at Kanji (sp??) and consider the complexity and think that surely educating young minds along those lines must have some affect over learning our much simpler, but more abstract system. But what exactly? That was my original point. The East Asians have to overcome their language structure to compete with us in the english speaking world. Most of us in the english speaking world do not understand the tremendous advantage we have in terms of economic competitiveness with East Asia. But, in a lot of ways the East Asians understand. To be an educated person in East Asia, they have also to be proficient in the english language.