Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: foreign language requirements for PhDs
Message-ID: <1989Mar17.190907.2845@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 19:09:07 GMT

In article <1571@vicom.COM> bitbug@vicom.COM (James Buster) writes:
>I presume, Henry, that you know how f^&*#%$ hard Japanese is to learn...

I've barely glanced at Japanese, so I can't really say I know.  (Russian
was enough of a hassle...)

>... while Japanese may make sense, I think that its
>difficulty precludes making it a *requirement*.

I think this translates to "language requirements don't make sense in
computers and electronics at English-language universities".  While I
don't deny that interesting work takes place in other languages, I can't
immediately think of any that is one-tenth as important as English and
Japanese.  (This may all change in twenty years... but I doubt it.)
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