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For the developers in the comments, having a better vocabulary is like having a better standard library. If you have to describe the details of a basic data structure every time you bring it up, you will lose the audience. The psychological concept of chunking plays an important role here. By encapsulating a complicated concept into a single package you increase comprehension and the ability to reason.

There is the same thing in mathematics where coming up with definitions (standard library functions) are crucial. One of the biggest developments in calculus was a rigorous definition of continuity. The definition itself is complicated. However, once you encapsulate the entire concept into the single word "continuity," you can start exploring and proving many more theorems.



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