/prog/ - non-english expert FIOC

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-18 22:23

Do you believe a person's knowledge of the English language influences their ability to program goodly? Can a non-native English speaker, or non-English speaker for that matter, ever become an EXPERT PROGRAMMER

_{_{if you find out, please let me know}}

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-18 22:54

if you don't speak english gtfo

this is america, not cambodia

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-18 22:55

i dont kno, tho im american adn programing was prttey aesy to leanr fr me. idk for othr races lol

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-18 23:03

Are you claiming that non-native English speakers cannot read/speak/write English proficiently?
It's not even my second language.
My favorite programming languages of choice are CL, C, platform's asm. I know over a dozen other PLs, however I'm not much of a FIOC fan.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 0:38

My first language is C.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 1:25

>>1
you are right. in fact, in southamerica we don't use programming languages. instead, we conjure the spirits of the computer using ANSI vodoo.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 1:34

FACT: all good software is written in the United States of America
FACT: all good software and internet companies are based in the United States of America
FACT: all the best programmers are in the United States of America
FACT: the main human language of the United States of America is English
FACT: the main human language of international communication and commerce is English, and the United States of America is the leader in international communication and commerce
CONCLUSION: being a native English speaker in the United States of America is necessary to become an EXPERT PROGRAMMER

signed,
an american EXPERT PROGRAMMER

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 2:37

>>7
sounds good to me.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 2:45

~~EVERYTHING IS COCKS~~

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 2:47

>>7
All non-programmer neckbeards and skiddies are Americans, too.
CONCLUSION: Being a native English speaker in the United States of America is necessary to become a neckbeard or a skiddie.

/herp

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 3:07

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Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 3:55

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Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 9:20

>>12

ugly as shit

Name: Professor Protip 2011-04-19 11:57

"for" "while" "if" "else" is all the more English you need to program proficiently.

I can hardly use the English language, but I my programming-fu is very strong. Compare that to the 100's of American kiddies you see who couldn't program their way out of a wet paper box and think that 10,000 design patters and unreadable code make for good software.

So you don't know of any good programmers who aren't English? How many great poets do you know who can't English? Fucking none, maybe one or two. How many great poets do you know period? 5? 10? How many great programmers do you know (GREAT programmers, and have actually seen/heard the work of both)

Exactly.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 13:15

>>14
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Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 13:15

>>14
You didn't even let me reply.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 15:38

Seriously, after all this time mocking the hilarity of FIOC, I finally wrote a few toy programs in Python and my god, it is text manipulation heaven.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 16:48

17>>
I find Perl is better for that specific task

non-english expert FIOC

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Name: Professor Protip 2011-04-19 11:57

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Name: Anonymous 2011-04-19 16:48