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When you're under 40, I consider not being able to speak, read and write English properly to be a huge handicap, especially if you work in a technical profession.
My field is embedded/industrial software engineering. I once had to adjust some stuff in a machine.... and it was programmed in French. Including the use of accents....
FOR i = 1 to 10 DO
(* Some French comments *)
(French function and variable names in here)
END_FOR
IMHO, if you write software for stuff that is sold internationally (and has to be maintained by people other than the original manufacturer, in case of custom machinery), you're a *complete idiot* if you *don't* write that stuff in English.
But yeah... that's off-topic here.
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