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by slavik81 4254 days ago
That has been tried before. Results were... poor.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html

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You are correct, but please don't refer to the bastardized version of the Jargon file. Wikipedia has a much better and more accurate article, with actual quotes and citations instead of unsourced politically motivated mythology attributed to "some victims":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM

>Critics of DWIM claimed that it was "tuned to the particular typing mistakes to which Teitelman was prone, and no others" and called it "Do What Teitelman Means" or "Do What Interlisp Means." - Guy L. Steele Jr., Richard P. Gabriel, "The Evolution of Lisp"

The person who bastardized and maintains the Jargon file is a racist, sexist nut job who built his career on attacking the Free Software movement, and who doesn't deserves anyone's respect or attention: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

That... makes me very sad. I remember the old ESR. Knew that I hadn't heard of him in a long time, did not know he went a bit nutty...