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- From: lsmichae@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Lars Michael)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Profibuch (was Julian Reschke involved...)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:40:20 GMT
- Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
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- wallmann@backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Natuerlich!) writes:
-
- >For the price of the Profibuch (80.-DM ~ $50 per 1200+ pages) you should
- >be still 'liquid' (in money terms) enough to also buy a German dictionary.
- Isn't that a *big* ignorant? Just imagine, you want to spend 50 bucks for a
- book in e.g. chinese or russian, can't speak the language and say that's
- cheap? You even would by a even more expensive dictionary and a grammar
- book to learn the language from an instant?
-
- Well, if you would do so, that's your problem, but it won't help our
- english speaking friends.
-
- English is established as the international language for scientific and
- computer science books, that's because english is a language that is
- spoken world wide. And that's why computer books are usually written in
- english.
-
- >This way you'll learn some German, which will be for your future
- >career probably even more profitable than knowing the VDI calls. (har)
- I would doubt that. You judge again without evidence.
-
- >(I had to read english manuals from the tenderest age, there was nothing
- >else available (sob))
- That's right, maybe because the computer science language *is* indeed
- english.
-
- Regards,
- Larry
-
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- | lsmichae@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | IRC: Pit HAM: DB3BW |
- | Lars "Larry" Michael (Mr. GIF) +------------------------+
- | Graduate Student of Computer Science | "What's the number |
- | at Univ. of Erlangen/Nuremberg Germany | for 911 again?" |
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- Larry
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- | lsmichae@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | IRC: Pit HAM: DB3BW |
- | Lars "Larry" Michael (Mr. GIF) +------------------------+
- | Graduate Student of Computer Science | "What's the number |
- | at Univ. of Erlangen/Nuremberg Germany | for 911 again?" |
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