Popular Mechanics reports the U.S. Air Force has decided to treat having computer coding skill in the same way they treat possession of fluency in a foreign language. The link to this article provided by Instapundit, who seemed to think it peculiar.
More years ago than I want to remember, University of Oregon accepted my knowledge of Fortran, then-current and documented on my transcripts, as meeting their PhD second language requirement. Understanding the logic of organizing human reasoning so a computer can operationalize it at high speed is very useful, even if it was never in my job description.
