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  • OK, accepting this as answer. Though it's not exactly what I would like: I would like a way to detect typos in the language itself, such as PHP, and not having to use a complicated IDE for this. BTW, creating meaningful (thus, long) names increases the probability of typos; this is why I try to avoid long names. Ironically, it leads to more typing, too: you say the creator of the language wanted to save a couple of keystrokes per new variable and thus forced us to type longer names with every use of the variable, making the program more difficult to type and to read? Then rather stupid of him? Commented Jul 23, 2014 at 15:04
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    I think the real reason Python was created is because someone really hated curley braces. Your right, longer names increase the probability of typos. Commented Jul 23, 2014 at 15:09
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    I wish he hated parentheses, too. After Perl, I find parentheses a big and unnecessary annoyance and source of bugs. Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 0:30