Of course you do. If I posted that the sky was blue, many of you would argue it’s not. Because of who I am. Learning Latin today is foolish and a waste of time. Ditto Assembler.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 10:21 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: I'm an Anglophone, and while English is a Germanic language, a big chunk of my vocabulary comes from Greek and Latin roots. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of René Jansen <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2026 10:16 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: CDW - Three new Mainframe Openings External Message: Use Caution I think you are wrong about Latin too. best regards, René. > On 24 Feb 2026, at 16:00, Dick Williams > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The “I use it so it must be important” syndrome. I would never recommend > learning it to anyone. A complete waste of time. Like learning Latin. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 12:21 AM, Brian Westerman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nope, I use it most every day at at least a few of the sites I manage. > > Unless you are at a totally vanilla shop, I think assembler is a necessity. > > Brian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
