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utnick on Feb 3, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Take the Arc Challenge

is program shortness really that important?

what percentage or time developing an app do you guys spend typing? For me it is quite low but maybe i'm not a superhacker or i just type fast

pg on Feb 3, 2008 [–]

It's not so much about typing as thinking. It's not just to save typing that you use high level languages instead of machine languages, right?

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