As Ray Kurzweil said, "The only second language you should worry about your kids learning is programming."
Yale has a foreign language requirement, but no CS requirement. Liberal arts tries to create leaders, I guess, not tradesmen -- but the best leaders have been tradesmen. I'm reminded of Venkatesh Rao's piece here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/03/09/great-ce...
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