Heather Donahue wrote: > > Or should I say I'm back? (Bill already used that title some time ago) > Welcome back. > I've been away from the list for awhile, I've had some life-altering > career-path education-like thingies to consider. I'm catching up a > little at the archives. > > I'd like to apologize to jonathan for not responding. You seem to have missed a few episodes: to apologize with Jonathan, you just need to threaten him waving a mallet over your head, uh, no, preferably over his. > > How does this relate to FB? Well after spending time 'surveying' > some other languages, it's obvious that FB is the most fun and > tweakable. Don't tell us you had not been warned. > Looks like I'll be sticking with programming after all, > especially FB. I just hope I'll be able find work as a Mac > programmer someday. Windows? ewww! Also due to my 'advanced age' > I'll only be able to get an A.S. degree for now. > That's clearly a good news. > P.S. as part of my degree requirements I should take a 'human' > language. For instance, for astronomy majors, German, Russian, or > French is recommended. Can anyone recommend a good language for > Computer Science? I can choose between French, German, Italian, > Latin, and Spanish. > I'm not qualified to give an advice related to computer science but I might try to do my best to help you with the French language if needs be. You can easily forget Latin since Ancient Romans used to use computers mainly built with stones which are very outdated nowadays. OK, OK, Latin is a good entrance for all the other languages. I've been told that German is suitable for the science terminology. I don't know German, maybe some native speakers can comment on this. All I know about Italian is that it is a very pleasant language to hear and that there is an active Mac community in Italy. I'm not sure Spanish is OK for computer science. Perhaps, the best for you is to start with a language you already know a bit, or maybe you could pay a visit to the newsgroups (it, de, fr, sp) on the net and see how they are crowded. -- Cheers Alain ----------------------------------------------------- FB^3 in Europe: http://euro.futurebasic.com/ FB II Pouch: http://www.pixmix.com/FB/outils.html -----------------------------------------------------