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Related question: are there any luminaries in the HN-oriented fields of programming, open source, startups, or general tech who are well known in the West and d

• imartin2k 12y ago
  Probably everybody can read, but some would not feel comfortable talking maybe. And I also know several people who prefer to read tech news in German instead of English.
• mhd 12y ago
  "at all" is probably not that likely, at least in the programming sector, but "not well enough to blog" is pretty common. Heck, it's common enough amongst native speaking bloggers...
• lentil_soup 12y ago
  At least in game development, some of the heads of some of the Japanese companies (Nintendo, Sony, etc) struggle a lot with English.
• doczoidberg 12y ago
  in mechanical engineering german literature is better than english.
• dalke 12y ago
  Georgy Adelson-Velsky, who invented AVL trees and bitboards for chess software, spoke no English. (See https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Georgy+Adelson-Velsky https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Georgy+Adelson-Velsk... for how he spoke no English.) I don't know about Evgenii Landis (the "L" in "AVL"), much less the other great Russian-speaking computer scientists from the 1960s (Levenshtein? Karatsuba? Brudno?) because it's really hard to find that information, and "at all" is a very low barrier. After all, I speak a few words of lots of languages, including "Good Morning" in Venda.