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> the obtuseness of the standard library function names I suppose you are too young to remember that back in the day there was no IDE helping you with autocomp
by pif 3y ago
> the obtuseness of the standard library function names
I suppose you are too young to remember that back in the day there was no IDE helping you with autocompletion, thus one character less in the name is one character less to type.
Furthermore, I'm ready to bet you are from the USA, and you forgot that most of the world (even the programming world) does not speak English natively, thus "SeedRandom" is NOT clearer than "srand": it's just as cumbersome and longer to type while reading character by character on a paper manual.
- pezezin 3y agoI am not from the USA; I am from Spain and learnt programming before I learnt English. I never found English keywords and identifiers to be a problem, they are just fancy words that you memorize and reuse. Heck, I know plenty of programmers that don't speak English, and they don't see to have a problem either.