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Agree with this, if one is thinking in terms of typing letters out you're working at entirely the wrong level of abstraction and with the wrong primitives.

I often use the example of ".toString" being meaningful whereas ".tosling" is nonsense (unless you have defined it elsewhere). I'm not even sure if that's the correct capitalization of the to string method in JS, but I shouldn't have to care. If my tools can't tell me which one is valid to use in the current context, then the tools are bad and I should look for better tools. (This may not be universally applicable and maybe Lisp is the promised land etc etc. But raw text input speed is a silly metric to prioritize and leads to a local maxima in programming)




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