Most of the time geeks and/or hackers dont care about spelling because what they do most of the day does not call for it. I have never been good at spelling,but I am not to bad with the grammer. Unfortunatly In programming grammer is not needed,but neither is spelling. I know from working at a consolting company that that the variables,constants and what nots have very long names and very discriptive names. The reason for this is so that anyone can follow the code and know what is being excecuted. This is partly due to the fact that most projects require more than one person to work on them and everyone needs to be able to know what is going on.
More often than not if someone like to program they program at home,like myself. In this case I don't and I would go as far to say that many dont care what thier code looks like or if words are spelled correctly. I remember in high school in computer science class leaning over and asking a friend how to spell something. One day I was just really off and couldn't spell anything and what he made me realise is that when you program it's not so much spelling correctly as it is being consistant in the spelling. So many
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Most of the time geeks and/or hackers dont care about spelling because what they do most of the day does not call for it. I have never been good at spelling ,but I am not to bad with the grammer. Unfortunatly In programming grammer is not needed ,but neither is spelling. I know from working at a consolting company that that the variables ,constants and what nots have very long names and very discriptive names. The reason for this is so that anyone can follow the code and know what is being excecuted. This is partly due to the fact that most projects require more than one person to work on them and everyone needs to be able to know what is going on.
More often than not if someone like to program they program at home,like myself. In this case I don't and I would go as far to say that many dont care what thier code looks like or if words are spelled correctly. I remember in high school in computer science class leaning over and asking a friend how to spell something. One day I was just really off and couldn't spell anything and what he made me realise is that when you program it's not so much spelling correctly as it is being consistant in the spelling. So many