Haha you're pretty much describing me. I think autocomplete overlaps with spellcheck in a text editor. You won't improve your spelling by relying heavily on a s

Haha you're pretty much describing me. I think autocomplete overlaps with spellcheck in a text editor. You won't improve your spelling by relying heavily on a spell checker but it won't really affect your vocabulary either and enables everyone to write syntactically correct text. Programming is more about telling the story or writing the speech than the spelling of the text. Treating code as manipulating plain text just freaks my brain out as the wrong abstraction level. But as I try and remind myself 'different people like different things and that's ok'.