Jan. 5, 2010
6:31 a.m.
On 05/01/2010 00:02, Adrian Kuhn wrote:
I won't comment on the rest, some prefer concise language, some like to keep it verbose. My point is that a language should offer short aliases for common terms, and I guess all of my examples are common enough to qualify for a shorter aliases based on that criterion--if you want to mimic the evolution of abbreviations in natural language.
Please bear in mind that natural languages have much more redundancy and less precision than programming languages. In addition, programming languages have handy tools like autocompletion that natural languages don't, making abbreviations less useful :)