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Re:Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language? by emmelaich on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:04PM (#23386932)
That's quite surprising to me! Because it used to be the case that some reading ability in German was required for the serious engineer or scientist.

From memory from around 1850 up to 1920s.

(I'm not that old heh, but I know people who have done serious historical research in engineering that required German)

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Re:Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language? by dbcurtis on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @11:19AM (#23391924)
At least in robotics a lot of good current research is being published in German.
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