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> like their overly concise naming schemes don’t they

One of the common features of "modern" languages that I can't comprehend is the love of single character sigils that completely change the meaning of a line of code or perhaps the entire enclosing function.

> I guess “real programmers” memorize libc down to every detail

Or, we just use 'man' and the massive 'section 3' of that system. A feature that no other language has managed to correctly replicate.



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