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gwern comments on Open Thread, September 23-29, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 30 September 2013 09:20:40PM *  5 points [-]

It's not the top speed, it's the overhead. It is incredibly irritating to type slowly or make typos when you're working with a REPL or shell and are tweaking and retrying multiple times: you want to be thinking about your code and all the tiny niggling details, and not about your typing or typos.