Steven just likes an argument. Nobody has ever taken the idea of a standard for language in comments seriously. It Just doen come up.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 18:35 Bernardo Sulzbach < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:43 PM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I dislike Strunk and White, and don't follow it myself (except by >> accident, as it were) but I've worked with neuro-atypical programmers >> who found it really useful to have a common standard that they could >> follow and reduce the uncertainty of what makes for good writing. >> > > I agree. > > I would like to reinforce that many software engineers today are _not_ > native English speakers but work with English codebases and write > documentation in English. > > Any standard is better than just asking for "clear and easily > understandable" and hoping that for some reason every person, no matter > where they were born and how they learned English, will share your > definition of "clear and easily understandable" by accident. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3MOO4LSWEAOAULDPN4LBHQWIHIRR7U5K/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido (mobile)
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