Human Languages: Not Type Safe

My new favorite programming blog, secrectGeek, has an excellent article about how the better you are at programming, the worse you are at talking to people.

The executive summary: programming languages reward terse clarity, something that human languages do not reward in any way.

Here's the bit I think is funny: everybody except programmers already knows all this. This is why job requirements for programming positions always list "good communication skills" as a requirement. Pretty much everywhere else that's assumed. With programmers you have to list it as a seperate job requirement.