April 2009 Archives

Jeff Attwood - The Ugly American Programmer:

Advocating the adoption of English as the de-facto standard language of software development is simple pragmatism, the most virtuous of all hacker traits.

Let's face it: If you aren't able to read & write English in a reasonably fluent fashion, you're in trouble - you won't be able to participate in any discussion or project on a global scale. Plus, you'll be late to every party - and you like the latest fad as everyone else, don't you? Yup, this requires some work on your behalf. Get over it and start working on it. Right now.