djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) (05/08/90)
From article <1990Apr29.050125.18851@light.uucp>, by bvs@light.uucp (Bakul Shah): > > There are many programmers whose natural language skills are not > on par with their programming skills. My experience has been that among programmers there is a very high correlation between language skills and programming ability. Every excellent programmer I have known, without exception, has been equally adept at speaking and writing. (This is not to say that all were initially proficient at English, because to some English was a second or third language.) I have often heard a friend of mine, a math professor, say that the scores on the math part of the SAT show almost no correlation with success as a collegiate math major, but the scores on the verbal part correlate almost exactly. I don't know where he got his data, but the assertion has the "ring of truth". As Wittgenstein and Russell tried to tell us, logic is language.