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by bbatha 1036 days ago
With auto complete I rarely type more that a character or two of any single thing. I doubt it takes me much longer to compose a traditional program compared to array language syntax with modern tooling.
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The (human) memory footprint of the more verbose program is much larger though, requiring it to be thought of in smaller chunks, and thus in a slower manner. You can't keep the mental model of a 1000 line program entirely in your memory, but a 10 line program is different, even if the individual lines are more dense.