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- From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
- Subject: Re: what skills does a programmer need
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.105622.8122@ITcorp.com>
- Organization: Interrupt Technology Corporation, Manhattan Beach, CA
- References: <1992Aug17.155545.15339@uwm.edu> <DLB.92Aug20083250@fanny.wash.inmet.com> <23312D@erik.naggum.no>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 10:56:22 GMT
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- In article <23312D@erik.naggum.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
-
- > On a related note, is correct spelling and grammar in natural languages
- > correlated with proficiency in the syntax of programming languages, or
- > is the latter correlated to the ability to manipulate symbols, as in
- > mathematics? (My own experience suggests that it's both, and the best
- > programmers are those whose good language skills are augmented by good
- > mathematical skills, but I've heard otherwise.)
-
- I've known lots of excellent programmers who couldn't spell worth a
- damn. Drives me nuts. (I blame it on TV: modern kids, even smart
- ones, learn their language by hearing rather than reading, so they
- have terrible trouble with homonyms.) On the other hand, most really
- good (native-English-speaking) programmers understand English grammar
- very well once you've corrected their spelling.
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- Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com uunet!desint!geoff
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