Comment by tambourine_man

4 years ago

I'm with you. Terseness is paramount.

I could never overcome my repulsion for Java and ObjC because of that. On the other hand, I fell at home with crazy RegEx that look like line noise to most people.

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tambourine_man

yepguy 4 years ago

I think shells could use something like a built-in eldoc[1], in addition to tab completion. It would make terse command line interfaces much more usable if you could see what the positional arguments were for.

[1]: https://docs.cider.mx/cider/config/eldoc.html

8bitsrule 4 years ago

I hate .methodNameAsLongAsMyArm as well, but there's the opposite extreme:

As a beginner, I liked short variable names. When I came back a few months later, I learned my lesson. Years later? easier to just start over.