Obfuscation is actually beside my point. The point is we don't use every "feature" of our natural languages, and likewise I see nothing wrong with not using every feature of our programming languages.

My children speak the same language I do, but they probably never will speak it the same way I do. There will be elements and idioms that I will use once in a while that they'll never use. Likewise, they will learn language constructs from their peers that I won't find all that expressive.

You're correct that some programmers will go out of their way to avoid global variables. Some will go out of their way to have object orientation. And so on and so forth. That may be a result of their experience or a result of their education or even a result of some misunderstanding. In any case, it's a result of them being individuals.

There are things I won't write because I had some bad experience in the past. I may not remember the details. I remember what got me into some trouble, and I still avoid it without remembering why. I don't see much problem with this as long as I can still "get the job done."

In reply to Re^8: No garbage collection for my-variables by kyle
in thread No garbage collection for my-variables by betterworld

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