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Yeah -- if a native English-speaking adult hasn't acquired a grade ten level of literacy (understanding rules of punctuation, grammar, spelling, composition, se
by Fixnum 17y ago
Yeah -- if a native English-speaking adult hasn't acquired a grade ten level of literacy (understanding rules of punctuation, grammar, spelling, composition, semantics, cogent argument), what chance do they have at reading/writing code?
Such a situation would basically be (is?) an admission that the educational/social system has failed to help the individual develop mentally [!] to the level which is probably possible for most people. Which is something that I find sad.
- jacquesm 17y agoI think you could easily make the case that in order to be able to program you have to be able to verbalize your thoughts to the point that they are unambiguous and that takes much more effort if you are not able to present a coherent argument in the first place. Writing prepares you like nothing else for that because it 'freezes' your thoughts to the point where you can analyze them.