What language scares you?

[Menelaus]

Welsh!

Scrabble without the vowels?

I bloody hate the Welsh language.

A little nine-year old Menelaus, going to a Welsh primary school for a year, complained to the teacher about having a 4:1 ratio of Welsh:English lessons and my never going to be speaking Welsh again.

Finally, getting so hacked off with this upstart little tulip (moi), she sent me off to the headteacher who let me sit in the corridor during Welsh lessons and read maths.

So - Wales is responsible for me being a geek. And I've never written back to say thanks!

[BrilloPad]

I can code anything. Its the business logic and working conditions that get most people in investment banks....

[Menelaus]

I can code anything. Its the business logic and working conditions that get most people in investment banks....

Yep.

I worked at DB in my last gig - was coding in SAS, SQL, S-Plus, Matlab, R -- pretty much anything I could get my hands on

[Andy2]

German scares me. Six different words for "the" that I've discovered so far. A skirt is masculine, a tomato is feminine, but of course a girl is neither. And they put the second verb at the end of the sentence, just in front of the first verb which they also sometimes put at the end of the sentence, and that's assuming one of the verbs hasn't broken in two with the second half staying put and the first half going to, yes, the end of the sentence.

Not only that
a is pronounced aa
e as a
i as e
v as f
j as y
and numbers are backwards
e.g forty five is called five and forty
geddit ?

[pleomax]

Parcel Mouth

[niche]

Chinese. They even use different lettering

[OwlHoot]

Or do you think you can adapt to any?

I'd never be able to adapt to Polish spelling

[thunderlizard]

Whitespace

[OwlHoot]

That is impressive. A 200 byte compiler for a language that is as as powerful as any ever written (in the sense of what it can compute, not its efficiency) and consisting of only 8 primitive instructions.

200 bytes? That must be Microsoft bloatware. There's a 150 byte compiler, mentioned here

[minestrone]

I can code anything. Its the business logic and working conditions that get most people in investment banks....

First few months in IB I was lost. People shouting at you because their equity swap never had a correct mature date, never had a clue what they were talking about.

They take the permies away for training, the contractors were just left to learn on the job. Some folk just never picked it up and when they learned you knew what was going on they just hassled you to do their job.