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Why not?

A friend of mine was an English major who went on to do programming for several startups. He's still a programmer.

It's an incredibly fitting path, especially for him. He's a stickler for detail and writes beautiful code.




My point was that it becomes a small pool of potential hires. I was a history major with a love of natural language, btw.




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