Even Flow..

As written before, I'm currently in Prague for the Euruko 2008 Ruby congress. Yesterday evening, the congress was officially opened with a party at a very nice club. There I spoke with a lot of people, from all over Europe. I had expected that most talks would be about Ruby or Rails, but actually, this didn't happen. What I found very interesting is that most conversations I had (and overheard) were about spoken languages. Apparently, geeks have a fascination for spoken languages. I, myself sucked very badly at French and German in high school (as I did in multiple subjects), but this was mainly because of a lack of interest in learning in general. Since I started programming, I really developed an interest in languages in general; comparing languages and structures within a language. Maybe because of this, I looked for a real challenge and started to learn Russian somewhere last year.
The nice thing to notice is that it's not just me who's really fond of languages in general. I really wouldn't have guessed to find so many people with the same thing at a programming language congress.