Why do programmers care about Grammar/Language usage?

[mikey_w]

@cpradio

Yes, because a good majority of us write technical documents with our work, deal with requirements, or have to send in formal documentation to review committees, so we definitely care!

Then I would hope you would care about proper spelling, punctuation, grammar and composition…

Instead of…

When a user logs on, they enter a username and password.

Why is this so painful?

When a user logs on, he/she enters a username and password.

Three extra characters to do it right - not so bad…