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   > If social media's any indication, I'd say it's more like devolving.  What's   
   > really weird is reading posts from programmers--a skill where precision is   
   > essential--who seem unable to write a sentence without committing spelling,   
   > punctuation or other grammatical error, often all at once.   
      
   As someone else pointed out, compilers catch a lot of their goofs for them.   
      
   Unless they are a COBOL programmer, most languages don't look much   
   like English.  Having worked for years as a programmer (COBOL) in a shop   
   where we had multiple programming languages in use, I am not at all shocked   
   that programmers have such issues when it comes to expressing themselves in   
   writing.   
      
   Mike   
      
      
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