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I write code slower than my typing speed anyway. This sort of typing efficiency obsession leads people to use dvorak or crazy non-standard keyboards. No thanks, not worth caring about.
There's an easy fix for part of the problem: bind shift-space to underscore. Yes, you still require shift, but IMO it's the stretch not the shift that makes typing an underscore jarring. xmodmap -e 'keycode 65 = space underscore'
I write code slower than my typing speed anyway. This sort of typing efficiency obsession leads people to use dvorak or crazy non-standard keyboards. No thanks, not worth caring about.
Yes I rather thing that the writer has a bit too much time on his hands
All you have give up for this is tightly-packed arithmetic statements, like this: 5*5-3 Instead, you have to give your tokens some breathing room: 5 * 5 - 3 I don't know, that seems pretty stupid too.
and gets even worse if you bring variables into the game. a = 5 b = 3 everybody from nearly every programming language would expect that after c = a-b you will find c to be 2 not nil (or throwing an exception or whatever)
my.long.name = 1
a.short.name = 2
one.long.result = a.short.name - my.long.name
one.string:trim:upper
Now we just need to design a whole new language :(
I use case instead of underscore. Doesn't help the shift-issue, but reduces the length of identifiers e.g. file_not_found becomes FileNotFound.
I_think_it_is_objectively_much_more_readable
The difference in length is pretty small anyway.
What he's referring to as a dash is actually a hyphen (-), which is pretty ambiguous when compared to the en dash (–) and em dash (—), both of which require modifier keys to type (and are frequently used in prose, to counter another of his claims). Fortunately, I've never seen em dashes or en dashes used in code.