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I disagree. Poor spelling and grammar is an abomination in professional software if it is client facing.

It doesn't matter in the slightest the background of the person who wrote it.

> I disagree. Poor spelling and grammar is an abomination in professional software if it is client facing.

It is abominable, but I have seen poor spelling and grammar on software released by Toshiba, I haven't heard any complaints about it.

I'd add to this that it's pretty evil in code too, just more insidious.

In what respect, the identifiers or the keywords?

Keywords wouldn't be a maintainer's problem, assuming the code works. Calling functions that are misspelled can get you into trouble fast though.