A spelling error can be a superficiality, but it can also be a symptom of an underlying problem: sloppy thinking. And sloppy thinkers generally make for for po

A spelling error can be a superficiality, but it can also be a symptom of an underlying problem: sloppy thinking. And sloppy thinkers generally make for for poor programmers, because they keep making the same trivial mistakes, keep breaking the build, and so forth. There are, of course, many people who are careful programmers but sloppy writers. The question is, should the company take that risk? A large company probably can afford to take that risk, smaller companies probably can't. And if programmers make spelling mistakes in function/variable names, then yes, I'm afraid that makes them lesser engineers.