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I'm not so sure about the relationship between native English and maintainable software, or in general being a great software developer.

Israelis aren't particularly fluent in English, more than others. Yet Israel is considered a great source of talent.

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In a way, writing software is translating human speech into machine speech. Any good software developer is fluent in the "machine" part, but trying to "translate" from a language (and culture) you don't master is a recipe for disaster.

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