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The compressed notation is not just about saving paper and ink. It's all about the amount of mental power and work you have to exert. If I'm filling a few page
by CJefferson 14y ago
The compressed notation is not just about saving paper and ink.
It's all about the amount of mental power and work you have to exert. If I'm filling a few pages with equations, if I have to write 'force' instead of 'f' all over the place, it's going to take me about 5 times longer. I'm going to only fit 1/5 of the content on each line and page, (OK, 1/5 might be excessive, but the principle holds I feel).
Programming languages have similar properties. Why don't we always write integer instead of int, loop_variable instead of i, and have no compact way of writing unnamed lambda functions?