>>>>- Using the full function/command name rather than the first four letters
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>>>I hate thos 4 lett comm and func name rath than the full spel of the name. Who in the worl thou that woul be a smar thin to do?
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>>It was, back in the days before intellisense and when diskspace was scarce and... well, the murky DOS past. It still helps in some cases.
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>>But then, as VFP language got richer, it eventually hit the wall. How many usable function names beginning with GET, or array functions with the mandatory A can you create and yet have people remember them? Type getf( and see whether it's getfile() or getfont() that will come up.
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>>OTOH, the overreliance on Intellisense has saddled us with the getword* pair where you must type eight characters before it knows the remaining two or four.
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>Visual Studio's intellisense will help you out before that. Just saying <g>.

You mean the beast gets fired up so often? You accidentally name a variable similar to a function and after four characters you get half an acre of a tooltip hiding the surrounding text, without having to type a trigger character (like anything non-alpha would in VFP)?

I have no doubts that Mssoft has poured resources into VS. They always did. That's their fighting strategy, to keep you fighting: Fire and motion.