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aunty_marion ([personal profile] aunty_marion) wrote in [personal profile] bronze_ribbons 2006-07-22 06:33 pm (UTC)

(and would indeed insist that sciences vs. humanities is a false dichotomy...)
I love you for writing this.


So do I!

Just for your information, I took French, German and Maths for A-Level. Which completely bollixed up their teaching schedules, as at least two other classmates were doing a language and a science. And as far as I'm concerned, programming "languages" are just that - languages. I learnt to write basic programs in BASIC almost as easily as I learnt to write basic sentences in French or German or Latin. OTOH, I'm hopeless at actually doing physics or chemistry, or advanced Maths (which is why I only got an O-level pass at A-level!). My brain understands the theory of it all perfectly, but can't translate it to solve practical problems. Mind you, my brain understands foreign languages perfectly well, but has problems translating sometimes. I understand French in French.

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