Are all programmers crap at speling?
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I am crap at spelling and my handwriting is ugly as hell... Thats why I became a computer programmer and not a english teacher.
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R. Erasmus wrote:
I am crap at spelling and my handwriting is ugly as hell
With those qualifications, you should have become a Doctor!
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I've always been crap at spelling, and there are certain words I have a complete blindness for. For example 'throat' usually takes me 3 or 4 stabs before the spellchecker can work out what I am trying to spell. I generally start off with throught and get worse from there. Also I tend to spell better if not thinking, otherwise there are some words I cannot decide how to spell if directly thinking about them.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Nonsense. Coffee doesn't affect my typing at all.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
Nonsense.
Coffee doesn't affect my typing at all."Nope, I have the caffeine patch. It's my invention. Each patch is the equivalent of 12 cups of coffee. You can stay up for days with no side effects. Ahhh! Sorry. " Lucille Krunkelhorn - "Meet the Robinsons"
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I rarely make spelling mistakes in CP or on other website because I get a red squiggle to spank my ass. One common mistake I do do thou is use the wrong word due to typing to fast or even pluralise something I should not However, when I am typing important work related stuff then I take much more care with spelling, grammar, etc. My coding rarely suffers due to compiler errors, and when I am coding string data then I do so at a slower rate to minimize mistakes Basically, when in isn't work related, I just don't care about the odd mistake or two
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musefan wrote:
Basically, when in isn't work related, I just don't care about the odd mistake or two
As a schoolmate of mine once said when I corrected his grammar, "I'm just communicating." I do despair of much of the Internet "communications" I see of late. It shows that some folks have either not been taught properly or they're (their, there) too (to, two) lazy to care. I swear that besides not being able to use the right words some people don't hear the same thing I'm hearing. Of late I'm seeing some people use the word "sence" in place of "since." Odd behavior (behaviour.)
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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musefan wrote:
Basically, when in isn't work related, I just don't care about the odd mistake or two
As a schoolmate of mine once said when I corrected his grammar, "I'm just communicating." I do despair of much of the Internet "communications" I see of late. It shows that some folks have either not been taught properly or they're (their, there) too (to, two) lazy to care. I swear that besides not being able to use the right words some people don't hear the same thing I'm hearing. Of late I'm seeing some people use the word "sence" in place of "since." Odd behavior (behaviour.)
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Face it, after a while, English is no longer your primary language. Sometimes Decimal is no longer your number base. So yes, you will make spelling errors and math errors. Although I can tolerant bad spelling in comments, bad spelling in function and variable names drive me batty.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Mark AJA wrote:
Do you mean specialists.
No.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Its not about being too lazy to care. It is about prioritising what is worth spending the extra time on and what simple doesn't matta
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I think you're wrong but you do not realize it. Making a spelling error once in a while I get it, but most of the people that make frequent spelling errors lack education in that area. They are not prioritizing; they are making "educated guesses" of what they think the spelling should be. English is a second language for me so in the beginning I could not understand everything in a movie or a program on TV. I really needed CC or subtitling as it helped me learn a lot. I have seen forums where native speakers of English were demeaning other people that were looking for subtitles, categorizing them to put it plainly as slow or handicapped or stupid. These are the same people that in the same post were using "definately" or "sence" instead of sense or "their" instead of they're. If these arrogant individuals would watch a movie with subtitles they would probably discover how bad they are at spelling. Somebody who prioritizes would probably use well known abbreviations to get it done faster but he or she would not butcher words. I totally get the LOL and BRB constructs in a chat, but I don't understand "vise-versa" when it should be "vice-versa" or "verses" when it should be "versus" (better use the "vs." abbreviation). Anyway to answer the OP's original question, no! Not all programmers are crap at spelling. That's because this flaw has nothing to do with programming but the individual.
giuchici
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I don't know if programmers are better or worse, but I think they should be better at spelling and grammar. Programming is all about following rules and structure. Inconsistencies and special cases make computing much more difficult. As a programmer, I hate it when people misspell words, make grammatical mistakes, leave spaces or tabs at the end of a line, more than one newline at the end of a file, etc. It shows a sense of carelessness and lack of attention to detail that doesn't fit a programmer.
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I don't know if programmers are better or worse, but I think they should be better at spelling and grammar. Programming is all about following rules and structure. Inconsistencies and special cases make computing much more difficult. As a programmer, I hate it when people misspell words, make grammatical mistakes, leave spaces or tabs at the end of a line, more than one newline at the end of a file, etc. It shows a sense of carelessness and lack of attention to detail that doesn't fit a programmer.
Charvak Karpe wrote:
but I think they should be better at spelling and grammar. Programming is all about following rules and structure.
One of the reasons that I asked the question.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I think you're wrong but you do not realize it. Making a spelling error once in a while I get it, but most of the people that make frequent spelling errors lack education in that area. They are not prioritizing; they are making "educated guesses" of what they think the spelling should be. English is a second language for me so in the beginning I could not understand everything in a movie or a program on TV. I really needed CC or subtitling as it helped me learn a lot. I have seen forums where native speakers of English were demeaning other people that were looking for subtitles, categorizing them to put it plainly as slow or handicapped or stupid. These are the same people that in the same post were using "definately" or "sence" instead of sense or "their" instead of they're. If these arrogant individuals would watch a movie with subtitles they would probably discover how bad they are at spelling. Somebody who prioritizes would probably use well known abbreviations to get it done faster but he or she would not butcher words. I totally get the LOL and BRB constructs in a chat, but I don't understand "vise-versa" when it should be "vice-versa" or "verses" when it should be "versus" (better use the "vs." abbreviation). Anyway to answer the OP's original question, no! Not all programmers are crap at spelling. That's because this flaw has nothing to do with programming but the individual.
giuchici
Ah ha, hypocrisy at its best!
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^(deliberate) The standard of spelling here in t'Lounge and other CP Fora is not particularly high, even allowing for ESL and Yanks. I am one of the worlds worst spellists, but tend to make only typing errors when coding. I know, I know, the first one is touching the keyboard at all. So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry, the level of grammar and spelling here in CP is much better than the comments in the local newspaper and Facebook. I guess the general public has a much lower level of intelligence?.
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Ah ha, hypocrisy at its best!