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Someone once told me a tale of a student who had every variable defined as a single element array. When queried, she responded: "What if I need two of them?"

If you consider the could, there's always a way to make things arbitrarily more complex. Reality is that your target is simply "sufficient".

Also another provided reason was language consolidation, so ease of developer-project-flexibility was probably not the lowest of concerns




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