[Tutor] Typos and attitudes on language

[Wesley Chun]

what an interesting thought!!!

i am paranoid about misspellings and cannot stand looking at
a misspelled word.  my spouse frowns upon my correcting her
spelling, and i always thought it was just me, but you may
have a Psych disseration here!  :-)

-wesley

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Danny Yoo wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Paul De Luca wrote:
>
> > Yeah, it was just a typo I made when writing the email. I realized it
> > after I send the email. I Was hoping nobody would notice, but I guess
> > thats hard considering every single person subscribed to this list is a
> > programmer. Poor spelling/grammar never seems to go down well with the
> > open source community. ;)
>
> Not just open source communities: I've noticed that there's an overall
> trend of those who have experience with computer languages becoming a
> little more careful with their spelling and grammar.