Fried considers being a good writer most imporant, stating "Probably the most important thing and probably one of the surprises is you have to work with people who are good writers."
, another well known programmer and author is also looking for good writers. He says "Being able to write clearly, to write English clearly is more important to developing useful software than almost anything else and that's something you’re more likely to learn in the English department than in the computer science department" in this talk.