> It's so easy to guess their meaning consistently wrong that people don't brother to look them up. I find this to be the source of most programmers' confusion

> It's so easy to guess their meaning consistently wrong that people don't brother to look them up. I find this to be the source of most programmers' confusion about most topics. Sometimes I spend hours arguing trying to convince someone that X works one way, because I've read the spec and the source code, while they believe that X works a different way, because they looked at its name and used it that way last time.