That was certainly true of me. I studied Greek and Latin in college. Everything I learned about computers, I learned on the job. The knowledge I learned in college was useless to me. The habits of mind that I formed were what mattered, the foundational skills of study, and particularly the ability to recognize patterns. The struggle to parse complex Greek texts that were, quite frankly, beyond my skill in the language was great preparation when I took on the challenge of documenting programs written in programming languages that at first I barely understood. It is not just knowledge that we
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