- Humans are stupid and are not good at using term in a consistent sense
- mathematics and other areas, emphasizing consistent use of words and training in consistent meanings.
- Programming uses a notation in which words have a one-to-one correspondence with their meanings because “it would be difficult for a computer to understand otherwise”.
- One-to-one correspondence allows the use of a particular word to be changed to another word in bulk
- Therefore, it is easy to change the wording after the fact while maintaining consistency.
- It is common for programmers to use editors to assist with this type of work
- Scrapbox gives similar assistance to natural language by batch conversion of links
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