[davimack]

Totally agree (also a successful English major / developer from the first boom).

A lot of what fascinated me was the underlying grammar and syntax of language and how, if you knew how to manipulate those symbols ("words") through the use of an appropriate tool (diagrams, but not the ones you remember from when you were a kid learning to write sentences) you could manipulate sentences almost like they were tree-structures - without changing the meaning.

That said, to _succeed_ as a developer, I felt compelled to go out and get a Master's in Information Systems ... but that was about career success (nobody wanted an English Major to be their IT Project Manager, for some reason).