Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:32 PM, David Alban <exta...@extasia.org> wrote: >> thanks for the responses. i'm having quite a good time learning python. > > Awesome! But while you're at it, you may want to consider learning > English on the side; capitalization does make your prose more > readable. Also, it makes you look careless - you appear not to care > about your English, so it's logical to expect that you may not care > about your Python either. That may be completely false, but it's still > the impression you're creating.
Speaking of learning English... http://bash.org/?949621 I used to work with programmers whose spelling is awful. I know for a fact that at least some of them had Vim's on-the-fly spell checking turned on: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/357267:using-spell-checking-in-vim nevertheless their commit messages and documentation was full of things like "make teh function reqire a posative index". (No wonder we ended up stuck with 'referer'.) I heard one of them mention that even though he sees the words are misspelled, he deliberately doesn't bother fixing them because its not important. I guess he just liked the look of his text having highlighted words scattered throughout the editor. Some other things programmers have taught me are unimportant: - accurate, up-to-date documentation; - error checking; - correctness; - code that meets functional requirements; - telling the project manager that you're going to miss a hard deadline; - turning up to work the day after deploying a new system, so you will be on hand if something goes wrong. But I'm not bitter. And apropos of nothing: http://bash.org/?835030 -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
