Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 7, 2008 @10:12AM from the math-is-the-universal-language dept.

Ben B writes "I'm working on an undergraduate degree in computer engineering in the US, and I'm a native English-speaking citizen. In fact, English is the only language that I know. Maybe it's not the same at other schools, but for the engineering program at mine, a foreign language is not required. If my plans are to one day be involved in research, is it worth my time to learn a foreign language? If so, which one?" Learning something new is almost never a waste of time, but how much energy have others found worthwhile to expend with all of the programming/math/tech type courses to be had at a large university?

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I know several... by croftj · 2008-07-07 12:28 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I started with BASIC, then learned 6800/68000 assembly, then C then bourn shell, perl,, then C++.
My latest and the one I was dragged into kicking and screeming was Java. I think it's like the drink, I'll just piss my life away if I continue to consume it.

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