The best programmers I’ve known have all been deficient at spelling. I don’t know why it so uniformly appears among them.

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ptspts 3 months ago | parent | next [-]

Absolutely not true about the best programmers I know.

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AdmiralAsshat 3 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A popular t-shirt illustrates this point:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/637761-i-write-code-progra...

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themadturk 3 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Humans in general, even writers, are deficient at spelling. This is the reason we need spellcheckers.

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psychoslave 3 months ago | parent [-]

I am far more confident at spelling any Esperanto word that I have never faced before than I am with many common word in French which is my native language.

We can do better than blaming people for falling in pitfalls of a system full of odd traps.

	▲	themadturk 3 months ago \| parent [-]
		Of course you are; Esperanto is a manufactured language designed to a certain standard; French, like our unfortunate English, is naturally evolved and has all the variants and inconsistencies that implies.