>How do you explain people who are fluent in several languages?
>My wife is fluent in 5 languages and could easily be a U.N. interpreter if she so chose.

There are two types of persons, technical minded and language minded. So different issues. But your wife is exceptional there are not many people who are fluently in 5 languages. Technical matters are way different as natural languages are pretty static. Programming languages and technique in general are evolving too quickly.

Walter,