Some (many?) people could stand to be more tactful, but at the risk of sounding like I'm excusing them (I'm not), we are programmers. Code has to be exact in spelling, grammar, and syntax, or it won't work as desired. Thus, proficiency with coding usually comes with a knee-jerk reaction towards typos and errors, a la code review "this is wrong. fix it."
I've never found a twitchier mob of English pedants than programmers, even compared to professional authors. Late nights of debugging have entrained us to fear errors, and even more, to distrust coders who regularly produce errors: "If you can't resolve a basic their/there/they're collision, how can I expect you to comprehend link resolution order?"
It's sound logic to be sure, but it could use more than a tablespoon of basic human decency to go along with it.
(P.S. If you, dear reader, are one of the folks ripping into people over typos, this isn't an excuse. Learn tact.)
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Some (many?) people could stand to be more tactful, but at the risk of sounding like I'm excusing them (I'm not), we are programmers. Code has to be exact in spelling, grammar, and syntax, or it won't work as desired. Thus, proficiency with coding usually comes with a knee-jerk reaction towards typos and errors, a la code review "this is wrong. fix it."
I've never found a twitchier mob of English pedants than programmers, even compared to professional authors. Late nights of debugging have entrained us to fear errors, and even more, to distrust coders who regularly produce errors: "If you can't resolve a basic their/there/they're collision, how can I expect you to comprehend link resolution order?"
It's sound logic to be sure, but it could use more than a tablespoon of basic human decency to go along with it.
(P.S. If you, dear reader, are one of the folks ripping into people over typos, this isn't an excuse. Learn tact.)