• @LagrangePoint@lemmy.world
    20•2 years ago

    Yeah, this was torture in grade school. I figured it would get better in middle school.

    Then it was torture in middle school and I thought it would get better in high school.

    Then it was STILL torture in high school and I thought it would surely, surely get better in college.

    Then I got to college and there were still mofos reading. like. this.

    • @maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world
      13•2 years ago

      I am an engineer who oversees a team. Most of them can’t write more than a coherent sentence. Code and analyze data, sure, but put together a coherent paragraph? Not really.

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15•2 years ago

        There’s a weird ongoing thing in the programming world where about half of coders think code should be well-commented and the other half not only think that code shouldn’t contain comments but also think that comments are an indicator of professional incompetence (aka a “code smell”). I’ve long noticed that the anti-commenting crowd are also the ones that can’t write very well.

      • @kicksystem@lemmy.world
        2•2 years ago

        I have had to tell software engineers time and time again that is is totally okay to make error strings beyond one sentence or one word. It almost seems to me that they never realized that strings can hold multiple sentences and and don’t have relevant memory constraints.