[deathtrader666]

Shouldn't it be "valiant" ?

[roryirvine]

Sure, but in those days spellcheckers were separate apps - the most popular at the time being CorrectStar from MicroPro.

They weren't integrated into programming-oriented editors, and it would have been unusual to run them against code.

[3836293648]

I still haven't seen anyone using a spellchecker in code outside of IntelliJ

[jimbob45]

The best programmers I’ve known have all been deficient at spelling. I don’t know why it so uniformly appears among them.

[ptspts]

Absolutely not true about the best programmers I know.

[AdmiralAsshat]

A popular t-shirt illustrates this point:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/637761-i-write-code-progra...

[themadturk]

Humans in general, even writers, are deficient at spelling. This is the reason we need spellcheckers.