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>I agree with you completely. None of us has every last bit of syntax memorized, well, other than maybe Sergey. As a mere mortal it's more useful IMO to be able to look up the syntactical stuff and free our minds to focus on the harder and more important aspects of software.

I was once asked about specifying a color pair in a Clipper environment. I said I didn't know the exact codes for any particular color combination but that it would take 2 minutes or less to dig it out of the manual. Didn't get that job either.