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by buttercraft 852 days ago
It's possible to understand a concept without knowing what names other people have attached to it afterwards.
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> It's possible to understand a concept without knowing what names other people have attached to it afterwards.

This is especially true for self learners / autodidacts or anybody else that's struggled with a problem, invented a solution and the only later found out that their solution is one of a few widely accepted solutions to $problem.

Being counted off for not "showing your work" even when you got the right answer was extremely frustrating.
Having a shared vocabulary is useful, though. That’s the whole point of design patterns, for example. That you don’t have to explain what you mean from scratch every time, but that you can say “decorator” and everyone knows exactly what you mean.