On 7/21/13 3:38 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/21/2013 2:21 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Or worse, just think that you have a lower intelligence level than you
actually have.
I read code, articles, books, etc., all day. There's a million times
more content than I could hope to read. So I (and everyone else) needs
some sort of filtering mechanism.
A common filter is layout, spelling, grammar, punctuation,
capitalization, etc. The more problems there are with that, the more the
reader is apt to conclude "this is not worth my time to read" and skip
it. Disorganized, sloppy presentation is strongly correlated with
disorganized, sloppy thoughts, and who wants to spend time reading it?
Presentation is incredibly important.
Regarding that, this is one awesomely funny flamewar:
http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/2011/03/greek-seaman-jacqueline-howett.html
The flamewar became epic enough to get its own place on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greek_Seaman
Andrei
