From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2005-05-31T22:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Intellisense and the psychology of typing

On 5/28/05, James D Carroll <jamesdcarroll@hotmail.com> wrote:
> And frankly if I
> have to type 'boolean' instead of  'boo<tab>' I get real cranky real fast.
> 

So, you save typing four letters.

In Ruby you don't need to type 'boolean'. You save writing 'dim',
'as', 'boolean' and the name of the variable too.

Saving four words instead of four letters sounds like a good trade off to me!

Douglas