The fact that you are a good writer, and I don't mean just a competent writer, although you are that, too -- but a good writer, does bias you, I think.
Then again, I think all programmers should be forced to learn some of the rudiments of prose writing, and maybe READ MOAR FICTION, dammit. And I don't mean the latest junk-of-the-month fantasy novel, either. I'm not necessarily advocating that all programmers be fluent in the Canonical Deadest and Whitest of the Dead White Men or anything, but a little more exposure to competent fiction wouldn't hurt most programmers. Or even competent non-fiction, come to think of it. And by that, I mean non-fiction like Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, rather than something in the O'Reilly oeuvre (ha ha).
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Then again, I think all programmers should be forced to learn some of the rudiments of prose writing, and maybe READ MOAR FICTION, dammit. And I don't mean the latest junk-of-the-month fantasy novel, either. I'm not necessarily advocating that all programmers be fluent in the Canonical Deadest and Whitest of the Dead White Men or anything, but a little more exposure to competent fiction wouldn't hurt most programmers. Or even competent non-fiction, come to think of it. And by that, I mean non-fiction like Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, rather than something in the O'Reilly oeuvre (ha ha).