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Re:To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head by auggierose on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @04:11PM (#44575342)
Is idiomatic related to idiotic?
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Re:To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head by bmn__ on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @04:03AM (#44579821)
People downvoted you because instead of polluting the discussion, you could have looked this up yourself.

The answer is yes, both words are related to idios, "own", "self", "private".

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Re:To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head by auggierose on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:24AM (#44580617)
Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head by bmn__ on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @08:07AM (#44581305)
lame
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Re:To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head by spauldo on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:42PM (#44584959)
It is if you're writing vimscript.
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