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Is typing `combine(t1, t2)` instead of `t1 + t2` the largest issue your experts have to productivity? Most folks complain about a variety of factors beyond typing speed.


I picked up Lisp early on, and don’t care that much about t1 + t2 vs. (+ t1 t2) vs. t1.add(t2). But without method overloading and generics, changing the static type of anything requires editing everything.


Good points.

I accidentally replied to yours. I had intended to reply to preseinger.


Well for math matrix formulas it gets difficult to read. Like (A+B)/2 *C*(A-B)/2 is better than mulMat(skalardivide(addMat(A, B), 2),mulMat(C,skalardivide(subMat(A,B),2)))


Definitely not.

The former is in general preferable to the latter, though, because it makes it a little more clear that arbitrary computation is occurring.




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