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by mseebach 4482 days ago
On the other hand, typing 3-4 characters is faster than typing 20. Also, I think there is a kind of reverse "hey, look fewer keystrokes!" effect, though. When you have autocomplete, there is no excuse to not use long, descriptive names for everything. I think that style would be a lot harder to sell if it was not for autocomplete.