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        <title><![CDATA[languages...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-9785-67395]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[In Ireland, it's difficult to find IT professionals, and expensive if you rind one, while everyone else is struggling to get by. So we're now looking for domain experts (high school teachers) with even a smattering of IT skills to work in our company.I also happen to be a language nut, and here's my comments on languages I know:Dutch: useless, they all speak English fluently;Finnish: great for me, I lived there for 1.5 yrs and had a ballSwedish: fun, easy, but has never been useful to meEast timorese (Tetun) : very useful, none of them speak EnglishRussian : would have been useful if I'd learnt enough to be conversationalMandarin Chinese : don't speak it but I'm very keen to have my son learn it.In short, I think these people learning programming languages are the smart ones.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tim@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:27:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Market]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-9785-67333]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[People go where the market is. Development is booming currently, but there will always be a need for translators.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rygood]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:00:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Coding ISN'T language]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sorry, but having worked in both worlds; while computer languages resemble spoken and written languages, they aren't the same thing.And equating them at the college level for course credit and requirements was, and still is, a major disservice to students.Learning a foreign country's language opens many more job opportunities than &quot;merely&quot; learning a computer language.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr_Zinj]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:42:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[dah di dah dit  dah dah dah  dah di dit dit  DIT !]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-9785-67280]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Learned THAT code long before the American schools started on Latin and German.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ka5s@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm waiting...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-9785-67205]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[...for Google's gCode app, that will change your prose description of software into actual software.  That's going to be a game-changer!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dmm99]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:14:07 -0700</pubDate>
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