Kev writes:

Kids not only can't spell these days, they use tons of text-messaging
abbreviations that drive us nuts in formal emails. Ah well, in a few
decades more, dinosaurs like us won't matter.

Actually, in a few years, the abbreviations those kids use will be obsolete,
and their use of them will mark them as oldsters. They only use them to save
bandwidth, but bandwidth is always increasing.

I hate using telephone text messages because the keyboards are so small, but I
can type normal English on a standard keyboard a lot faster than those kids
can abbreviate their text messages.

At the same time, I have to add that some of the best programmers I've
ever known, were also dyslexic. They would make us crazy with
variables like "_reslut" instead of "_result". Even if you pointed it
out, they really couldn't see the mistake. Anyway, we just let it go
most of the time.

So how did they manage to write decent programs? Errors like that are very
serious in software engineering.

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