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- From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
- Subject: Re: SE going offshore?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.133843.18058@sei.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Software Engineering Institute
- References: <1992Nov13.142754.12335@ornl.gov> <2B05650C.29402@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:38:43 GMT
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- In article <2B05650C.29402@ics.uci.edu> ejw@siam.ics.uci.edu (Jim Whitehead) writes:
-
- >I disagree. Many software faults can be traced either to faulty
- >specifications, or incorrect interpretation of specifications. For
- >the immediate future, the largest market for software will be the
- >United States. This means that either the problem description or
- >the specification or both will be expressed in English. With
- >programmers working on these projects whose primary language is
- >not English (the case with off-shore programming teams) the possibility
- >for specification errors is very high, IMHO.
-
- Hate to tell you this, but in my experience the average graduate
- student from India speaks better english than the average US
- graduate. One reason is that the main language of higher education
- in India, and in most of the Commonwealth of Nations, is english,
- and it is taught both exactingly and well.
-