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“Why I do programming” Because you failed at grammar? ;-) Engineers and programmers prefer passive voice, it’s endemic. “Why I program” Would be the active f
by scoreandmore 1y ago
“Why I do programming”
Because you failed at grammar? ;-) Engineers and programmers prefer passive voice, it’s endemic.
“Why I program”
Would be the active form.
- tired-turtle 1y agoOr “X is being deprecated” instead of (the more appropriate) “X is being decommissioned”
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoHe probably didn’t fail at grammar in Spanish, his native tongue. Writing “why I do programming” in an ESL evaluation may get a few points docked off but unlikely to be grounds for flunking.
- Stratoscope 1y agoNo, “Why I do programming” is active voice. An example of passive voice would be “Why programming is done by me.” And of course no one would write that. You may prefer “Why I program”, which is indeed more concise and straightforward. But that's a stylistic preference, not a difference between active and passive voice. For a similar example, consider “Why I do science”. Here there isn't a convenient way to shorten it, but it's still active voice. In general, for any X, “Why I do X” is active voice, and “Why X is done by me” is passive voice.
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