> Students should learn formal grammatical structure in English language class in high school, not programming class in college. … but they don't. (There are

> Students should learn formal grammatical structure in English language class in high school, not programming class in college. … but they don't. (There are also people—I'm among them—who found discussions of natural-language grammar dull, as belabouring too much a familiar point, until they saw the power that grammatical tools lent in the less familiar setting of formal specifications.)