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Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

by @myusuf3 mahdiyusuf.com published 2011-09-091 min read

I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. I dont really know about that; but what I do know

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