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> ... so that 4-5 years from now you'd be > extremely in demand, what ... I can't see how that could be mistaken for talking about a spoken language, but you

> ... so that 4-5 years from now you'd be > extremely in demand, what ... I can't see how that could be mistaken for talking about a spoken language, but your interpretation has certainly twisted my mind. Thank you. To answer question I thought the OP was asking, I'd offer COBOL and ForTran. There is still a lot of legacy code out there, and fewer and fewer people who have a chance to maintain it.

smcl 16y ago
Admittedly my answer didn't include anything to justify the "extremely in demand" part - my brain went into dreamland briefly. A lot of people talk about how Chinese would be a key language to know for conducting business in the mid-to-long term, which is what I thought he was driving at. Though I imagine you need longer than 4-5 years to be useful at Chinese, as per this previous HN story - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368051 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368051