Disclaimer: If you dislike pedantry then do not read this post :p

I agree with diotalevi.

Whenever I see poor spelling and/or grammar, it always gives me a bad impression. In my mind it's usually a sign of either:

  1. Laziness (the bad kind)
  2. Lack of attention to detail
Whenever I look at job resumes (which I have to do from time to time), I usually immediately bin anything that is poorly written or poorly presented - and this includes poor spelling. My reasoning is that if the person can't be bothered to make the effort to present a decent resume, then the chances are high that they will bring this sloppiness onto the job.

I do understand that English is a second language for many people (most actually), and that many people that are not native English-speakers do genuinely struggle with the language. However, having lived and worked in SE Asia for the past several years - where I see the English language absolutely destroyed in ways that you couldn't imagine on a daily basis - I maintain that you can generally tell the difference between a non native English-speaker who is genuinely stuggling with the language (and make appropriate allowances), and another native English speaker who is just being plain lazy.

But back to the point:
No, I wouldn't want a poor speller maintaining Perl modules:

  1. because they're probably going to produce crap documentation that's difficult to read and understand. And if I can't understand the documentation, I'm less likely to use the code.
  2. because I associate poor spelling with general sloppiness, and sloppy code is probably going to be buggy code - which I don't want to use.

cheers,
Darren :)

In reply to Re^4: Maintainer looking for a module by McDarren
in thread Maintainer looking for a module by pileofrogs

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