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I read more like a page at a time. Some might accuse me of being a page-at-a-time writer. Compare the way you perceive "~~" to the way you perceive "++". I h
by yarvin9 11y ago
I read more like a page at a time. Some might accuse me of being a page-at-a-time writer.
Compare the way you perceive "~~" to the way you perceive "++". I hear these as "sig sig" and "lus lus". (Or rather, as "slus," because that's a further Hoon abbreviation, but never mind.) You don't hear the former at all; but you hear the latter as "plus plus," don't you?
This is because "tilde tilde" is so heavy your brain doesn't want to do the work of hearing it out. But overriding that connection doesn't save energy, which is why you do hear "plus plus." Your brain has to think the very complicated little thought, "squiggle I don't want to pronounce." It would much rather have a sound.
It's torture enough to read McGonagall silently. Out loud? Who would try that? It's tantamount to suicide.
- invertedohm 11y ago> You don't hear the former at all; but you hear the latter as "plus plus," don't you? I really do not. A short silence, both of them. I suppose it depends on how you normally code. I have never had a need for speaking out code and am not well versed in it.
- jeremysalwen 11y agoI experience reading similarly to you. I will often become familiar with written words before I know how to pronounce them. When I want to say the word for the first time, I will have to pause and think about how it would sound out loud. This is especially true of code and symbols. For example, consider this poem > is it already too dark > to play tennis with a racket > i asked? > while I code with [ and contrast with this one > The house filled with laughter > from mother and daughter > Both were fiends > but neither friends or even better, combine the two > I never used a ~ > as well as Oscar Wilde
- david-given 11y agoYes, this is precisely my experience! And the weird thing is that the little silences where symbols should go are all completely distinct.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoDo you like, read code from left to right? You don't parse it visually straight into an AST? How do you subvocalize the parentheses in (x + y) * z?