Ask HN: Did knowing or learning a not-so-famous natural language benefit you?

Re:Ask HN: Did knowing or learning a not-so-famous natural l... by lowken10 on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:56AM (#12950587)

My first job was at a large casino as a systems analyst. The casino switched CMS software and went to an AS400 RPG based application named ACSC. I took it upon myself to learn the database of the application and also to learn RPG programming (shudder).

This lead to my first software development position at a large international bank.

I worked as an RPG developer for three years then I pivoted to SQL Server/C#.

So yes knowing a not so famous language benefited me.

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Re:Ask HN: Did knowing or learning a not-so-famous natural l... by biot on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:17PM (#12951363)

You're being downvoted, but the original uncorrected title was "Ask HN: Did knowing /learning a not-so-famous language benefited you?" (copied and pasted from browser cache) and didn't have the caveat that this was not a programming question. So have an upvote for an interesting story in the spirit of the original question.

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Re:Ask HN: Did knowing or learning a not-so-famous natural l... by 4e1a on Monday November 14, 2016 @11:28AM (#12950866)

RPG LOL. Me too.

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