On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:03:40 +0100, Steve Walker wrote:

The pretty well universal requirement for GCSE English Language should
ensure that students and workers can spell use grammar reasonably
correctly (if they make the effort) and should not be tested during
other exams.

A good friend of mine is dyslexic. During his Ph.D. in CS, he wrote a
number of Algol programs. We moved from an ICL/Elliott 4130 to an ICL
2960.

All his programs failed to compile. More than one problem, but all the
same cause. For example, he had spelled UNTIL as UNTILL. He had
previously got away with it, because the 4130 compiler only checked the
first four characters of reserved words (24 bit machine, 6 bit upper case
only internal code).



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