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From article <1990Apr29.050125.18851@light.uucp>, by bvs@light.uucp (Bakul Shah):
> 
> There are many programmers whose natural language skills are not
> on par with their programming skills.


My experience has been that among programmers there is a very high
correlation between language skills and programming ability. Every
excellent programmer I have known, without exception, has been equally adept
at speaking and writing. (This is not to say that all were initially
proficient at English, because to some English was a second or third
language.)

I have often heard a friend of mine, a math professor, say that the
scores on the math part of the SAT show almost no correlation with
success as a collegiate math major, but the scores on the verbal part
correlate almost exactly. I don't know where he got his data, but the
assertion has the "ring of truth".

As Wittgenstein and Russell tried to tell us, logic is language.