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Original author here.

I can confirm that the actual reason is that at the time I thought typing "print" instead of "System.out.println" was a great idea.




In that case, I think you might have been happier in a language other than Java. :-)


That's actually not such a bad idea, since you seem to have discovered one of the traits of good abstraction: it makes code more concise.


It always was rather onnerous.


It IS a great idea!




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