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Re:Your job was probably outsourced for the reason you suspe... by petra on Sunday July 24, 2022 @03:33PM (#32216805)
I'm not so sure about the relationship between native English and maintainable software, or in general being a great software developer.

Israelis aren't particularly fluent in English, more than others. Yet Israel is considered a great source of talent.

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Re:Your job was probably outsourced for the reason you suspe... by SicSemperUranus on Sunday July 24, 2022 @03:39PM (#32216858)
In a way, writing software is translating human speech into machine speech. Any good software developer is fluent in the "machine" part, but trying to "translate" from a language (and culture) you don't master is a recipe for disaster.
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