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.
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.