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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!fulcrum!igb
  2. From: igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
  4. Subject: Re: SE going offshore?
  5. Message-ID: <Bxv98I.KsD@fulcrum.co.uk>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 15:19:30 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov13.142754.12335@ornl.gov> <2B05650C.29402@ics.uci.edu>
  8. Sender: news@fulcrum.co.uk
  9. Organization: Fulcrum Communications
  10. Lines: 11
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  12. In article <2B05650C.29402@ics.uci.edu> ejw@siam.ics.uci.edu (Jim Whitehead) writes:
  13. > United States.  This means that either the problem description or
  14. > the specification or both will be expressed in English.  With
  15. > programmers working on these projects whose primary language is
  16. > not English (the case with off-shore programming teams) the possibility
  17.  
  18. Have you seen the standards of English of, for example, the Indian
  19. professional classes?  Now consider what passes for English from many
  20. native speakers.
  21.  
  22. ian
  23.