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Old 04-26-2018, 06:03 PM   #83 (permalink)
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"Mumbo Jumbo" is the language of Engineers' treasure maps. Like math, it packs a lot of information into little space. Longer terms slow down communication and idea combinations, which has to be pretty sharp for jobs like virtual surfaces. I'm not trying to write for everyone here, even the OPs.
I once read a description of a conversation between two programmers. To paraphrase, they started with English for handshaking, then dropped to pseudocode, then dropped to assembler.
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