An anecdote:

On Jan 30, 1996 09:28:28, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>[...] it was a lot easier to teach an English major about
>computers than it was to teach computer programmers how to write [...]

In a first year English literature course I took during my first year at
RPI many years ago, one student complained to the instructor: "I am an
engineering student; none of this English literature stuff is going to be
very useful to me.  Why do I have to take it?"  The teacher replied: "We
have a policy here at RPI, every student is required to take at least one
foreign language."
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Robert A. Baron
Museum Computer Consultant
P.O. Box 93, Larchmont N.Y. 10538
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