Are all programmers crap at speling?
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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.
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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^(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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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!