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." -- Robert A. Baron Museum Computer Consultant P.O. Box 93, Larchmont N.Y. 10538 [log in to unmask]