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Spelling and grammar is not valued in the engineering disciplines, especially when there is a sizable population of the workforce for which English is a second language.
Edit: only on Lemmy do you get downvoted for saying true things based on your real experience in the world.
I couldn't be a software engineer without knowing English spelling. So you're talking bullshit.
FYI, all programming languages are based on English language and use English words.
Even edited your comment to be confidently incorrect, LOL
I am in fact confidently correct. Prior to working in engineering, I worked in business development. The difference is stark. When you’re writing a proposal that is supposed to win your organization contracts, you have to be perfect in your grammar and spelling. In engineering, it’s less critical and no one seems to care how much you butcher your writing and spelling. Sure, people know some english, but then you read their code and there are glaring misspellings. The best is when they misspell a variable name and then it gets used all over the code base. Internal design documents are also rife with grammar mistakes and misspellings too. In my experience, AI is actually better at spelling than human software engineers. So, I don’t buy this post at all.
Your ass would have been downvoted on any platform for saying spelling and grammar is not valued in engineering disciplines. Some of them would be downvoting you for saying a discipline built on the foundations of math and science does not value accurate and correct documentation, and the others would be downvoting you for calling whatever the fuck microslop is doing an "engineering discipline".