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Contractions are conventional both in spoken and written languages and have been for centuries.

The problem here is that the technology has not changed. We are just trying to hide more of the machine from the operator. This will keep happening until the operator is dealing with such a high level abstraction that they no longer can or will understand the machine. I use the term operator rather than user as that implies less of an understanding barrier.



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