From: vanjac12@... (Van Jacques) Date: 2003-12-06T18:02:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Indepth Ruby Book "Zach Dennis" wrote in message news:... > Ok this picture was depressing and makes me want to cry. Why do they only > offer French, German or Spanish in the public school systems in the U.S. for > a choice of foreign langauges? I'm being hindered to learn by my inadequate > public schooling. > What we need no is someone to translate these into English. I agree that we need more people learning languages other that European in school. When I was a grad student, they reduced foreign lang. requirements for PhD from 2 langs to 1 (I took French). I think they were talking about programming as counting as a lang or some such nonsense. Do they do that now? (count programming as a foreign lang?) Van