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But we still read with the Mark I Eyeball. A commonly-used keyword should be short, and in a functional language, using "fn" instead of "function" seems a perfectly sensible idea.

Mathematics and natural languages take the same approach, assigning the most commonly used bits of the language the smallest words/symbols. It makes the document easier to parse, when done within reason.




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