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If your English skills are reasonable, it's fairly easy to parse the article and fill in the gaps yourself. Probably easier than a non-native writer wrestling w
by snorrah 11y ago
If your English skills are reasonable, it's fairly easy to parse the article and fill in the gaps yourself. Probably easier than a non-native writer wrestling with a spelling or grammar checker when they might not know if the suggestions presented are good or not.
- Cyph0n 11y agoI agree completely. It seems some HN readers think that if they have perfect English (they do not, sadly), everyone else should rise up to their unrealistically high standards. I guess us programmers are a bit more sheltered from the real world. Add to that the primarily US-based audience, and you have what is called a "hivemind".
- padobson 11y agoI think it's more like Stockholm syndrome. Our compilers are berating us 100 times a day that we're making grammatical mistakes in the language we're using, and we begin to love them for it. It's no wonder we tend to demand a higher standard from the authors we read.