Ah FUD against Sanskrit. Thought I would see those only in Indian politics. Nice to see that on HN too.

Do you, the no-nonsense hyper-practical man, smirk at mathematicians who study pure theory?

I was simply pointing out that the analogy is not a good one. I have no problem learning Sanskrit for the pure enjoyment.

Sanskrit is not a dead language. Enough with the FUD. At least it is more intellectual than current day colonial languages like Spanish.

The parent has been commenting asking people why they want to learn Sanskrit when there is "infinitely many other" things to learn about. I bet that you can not learn Lisp and sail through a great programming career. And I really don't think Sanskrit is a "dead" language - it is important to far too many people to be called dead.