Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:36:58 -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > > Well, that might be asking a bit too much of the programmers, who > > perhaps don't exactly enjoy mucking about in the lowlands of English > > grammar and syntax. > > Oh come on now! For the kinds of minds who enjoy obfuscated C or Perl, > English is just par for the course.
As it happens, there appears to be pretty weak correlation between proficiency in programming and proficiency in writing -- SOME excellent programmers are great writers too, but, I would guess, just roughly the same percentage as in the general popularion (i.e., deucedly few). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
