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Non-English-speaking programmers

Non-English-speaking programmers

Posted Sep 4, 2008 5:55 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: VIA releases open source Xorg driver by xtifr
Parent article: VIA releases open source Xorg driver

xtifr claims, essentially, that one cannot program in C well without knowing English. This is manifestly false; a very great deal of good C code is written by people who don't speak any English. They have to work harder, but many people are capable of working hard. They may depend occasionally on an English-speaking colleague, but one such colleague can serve many programmers.


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