| 100% and I never thought of that before but I can see how you'd get that impression from tutorials. The VSCode powershell extensions will also give you suggestion squigglies under all of your aliases in a saved script if they're not long-form, but I usually mix and match based on pragmatism. My use of alias vs long-form usually comes down to two sort of situations: * Ad-hoc at the shell: all aliases all the time (and make my own if I need to. welcome to my godless wasteland, population: me)
* Shared scripts: Just like any code, do what's idiomatic for the team. Usually it's largely aliases with some long-form In practice I'd say the formatting consistency situation on teams isn't nearly as bad as SQL but obviously not as good as Go. For reference, I'm also a huge APL fan, so hit me with arcane symbols in my free-time all day long, but definitely pragmatic balance at work. I also don't even think of them as acronyms personally. The acronym just sort of means the semantic action in my brain at this point, but I think that's mostly a fluency thing, and can't really speak to it being hurtful/helpful since I'm so removed from when I first started learning it |