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How do most folk deal with this? Just get 'better' at not making small mistakes? Yeah, this is exactly what happens when you do a lot of programming. Apparent
by dkarl 16y ago
How do most folk deal with this? Just get 'better' at not making small mistakes?
Yeah, this is exactly what happens when you do a lot of programming. Apparently, writing code isn't like writing natural language, where some people are terrible spellers and just can't get better. I know lots of programmers who are terrible spellers, some who can't spell a word twice the same way to save their lives, and in code they are as good at getting function and variable names right as anyone else. (FWIW, I observe this working in statically checked, compiled languages. Bad spellers don't seem to go through more "fix typo, compile, fix typo, compile" cycles than good spellers. It might be different when you don't have the compiler's immediate feedback pricking you to make fewer mistakes.)
The only problem is when people create class, function, and variable names that contain misspellings. Then your brain has to fight with itself, leading to repeated errors.