> Knowing English is pretty much a prerequisite for programming. Emphatically no. You can be a brilliant programmer without knowing English. Of course, that do

> Knowing English is pretty much a prerequisite for programming. Emphatically no. You can be a brilliant programmer without knowing English. Of course, that doesn't say that knowing English somehow hurts. I've met many programmers smart enough to learn programming to expert levels despite not knowing English and having to rely on whatever was available in other languages - sometimes that was plenty, sometimes they had to reinvent algorithms. At the same time I know other good programmers who were faced with the problem of learning programming and English at the same time and succeeded at that.