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Not me.
There is no failure only feedback
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I am crap at spelling and my handwriting is ugly as hell... Thats why I became a computer programmer and not a english teacher.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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R. Erasmus wrote: I am crap at spelling and my handwriting is ugly as hell
With those qualifications, you should have become a Doctor!
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Face it, after a while, English is no longer your primary language. Sometimes Decimal is no longer your number base.
So yes, you will make spelling errors and math errors.
Although I can tolerant bad spelling in comments, bad spelling in function and variable names drive me batty.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
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What are 'spellists'?
Do you mean specialists. 
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Mark AJA wrote: Do you mean specialists.
No.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Henry Minute wrote: So, is this a general trend or am I just imagining it?
Worse compared to who exactly?
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I would not go as far as saying bad at spelling, but i would say (for me anyway) careless typer. 
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I don't know if programmers are better or worse, but I think they should be better at spelling and grammar. Programming is all about following rules and structure. Inconsistencies and special cases make computing much more difficult. As a programmer, I hate it when people misspell words, make grammatical mistakes, leave spaces or tabs at the end of a line, more than one newline at the end of a file, etc. It shows a sense of carelessness and lack of attention to detail that doesn't fit a programmer.
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Charvak Karpe wrote: but I think they should be better at spelling and grammar. Programming is all about following rules and structure.
One of the reasons that I asked the question.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Henry, the level of grammar and spelling here in CP is much better than the comments in the local newspaper and Facebook. I guess the general public has a much lower level of intelligence?.
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Just wanted to say hi, I'm surfing the interwebs once again after 1.5 weeks! I got chickenpox and had a really hard time here, but I'm ok now, I'm still not allowed to go work but I can log in to CP from home 
Alright, now let's see what happened in my absence.....
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--either way, you are right."
— Henry Ford
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Lets hope you'll be better in less than nothing... ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Good to know you've survived! and of course good to see that one of the first things you've done is to get connected to the CP... ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) would not have enjoyed a lot to know that you would have done other things before...
Because... I guess that at the first moment you've been able to move one finger you've logged in here... is that right? 
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Correct sr!
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--either way, you are right."
— Henry Ford
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Were you gone?
Seriously get well soon and enjoy the browsing!
The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. - Orson Scott Card
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I hope you are wearing rubber gloves - I don't want you give the site a virus...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Maybe Nagy can borrow them as well?
The rubber gloves![^]
The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. - Orson Scott Card
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Had to follow the link to get that, but good idea - provided he removes them afterwards. Don't want smelly keys here either...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning.
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Good to hear that you are feeling a little better.
Are all your *cough* parts working as designed?
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Lock and loaded sr!
There were affected areas but I think my wife will enjoy the new landscape
Just kidding, everything fine thanks
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--either way, you are right."
— Henry Ford
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Soulus83 wrote: I got chickenpox
If that's an STD, take it as a warning that you should be more careful what you do with poultry.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's also called Varicella
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--either way, you are right."
— Henry Ford
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Hi CP Friends,
I have enjoyed 'Tom's Hardware's' site, for many years, and, imho, it has made a come-back in the last two years in terms of quality and depth of reviews ... a recovery, imho, from several "poor" years after its sale, and Tom's departure.
But, today, I was perusing their 'Tom's Hard News' e-mail newsletter, and I had turned 'display images' on in IE9, and I was shocked to notice that in the links associated with advertisers' images embedded in the e-mail they had appended my e-mail address in plain text to the end of the 'click-through.'
I find it hard to believe they are that un-subtle about privacy concerns, and I always do take the trouble to read the privacy statement before I subscribe to such e-mail newsletters, and would never have agreed that s3s-bofm.net, whatever that is, should be using my e-mail.
And, when subscribing to any web-site's or blog's e-mail or whatever, I am instantly blown-off by any practice like making you opt-out by default to not allow third-parties to get your e-mail address, instead of opt-in.
Okay, hypothetical: 'Tom's Hardware' answers a query from me saying that they sub-contract out their click-throughs through s3s-bofm.net, and s3s-bofm maintains strict control of all e-mails under TH's account, respecting privacy. Should I still be concerned ?
I shudder to think this is common practice, and, while I have no reason for paranoia because the machine I use to read e-mail is very well-defended, maybe I should be paranoid ?
best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you!
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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