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Do you prefer your English communication from people with limited English language proficiency, because they have things to say without attention to grammar, precision, and logical structuring?

Lack of understanding of nuance works about as well in programming languages as it does in English - it's very limited and causes issues, which often the low vocab user is simply not aware of. But the issues exist nonetheless.

Essentially you are arguing for a low level of education in the craft of programming, and this is why many (experienced/career professional) people tend often select against users coming from those languages.

Another poster just down agrees with you, but notice they mention they started with Python, which is a beginner language with limited detail, and can't grok why they need to learn more to use Java and why it's worth it. I agree, they can't understand why, but that doesn't mean there aren't valid reasons. It just means they have more to learn, and 'don't know what they don't know' (yet, hopefully).



To borrow your language metaphor, I find it's more like dealing with people who are capable of communicating complex ideas with simple vocabulary, versus people who can only communicate complex ideas using extremely technical jargon.




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