k-mcgrady on Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

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I found the Objective-C one strange too. I would have thought '[' and ']' would have been two of the most pressed keys. I only really use '/' for commenting.

dan1234 14y

I do type a lot more square brackets in ObjC than any other language, but I find that I type a lot more generally due to the increased length of many method names in ObjC (or I would do if autocomplete didn't do it for me).

(Simple) Example:

  PHP:
  $myString = sprintf('Total: %.2f', $myFloat); 

  ObjC:
  NSString *myString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Total: %.2f", myFloat];

Maybe this is the reason these characters don't score too highly in overall frequency? I have no answer for the high frequency of '/'.

k-mcgrady 14y

That's a good point. Regarding the '/' I'm betting the code sample was very well commented.

alpb 14y

I bet the code sample was from Apple's demo projects so there were like 100 lines of licensing/copyright at the top of each source file.

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