Chomsky has an idea called "The poverty of the stimulus", where he attempts to prove his ideas about deep syntax (or whatever he calls it) by handwaving that toddlers can't possibly learn language by merely being immersed in it for a few years.
I'm not impressed with the notion as applied to toddlers, but I think it applies fairly well to learning what variables mean in a codebase. Especially one written to be terser-than-terse.
I'm not impressed with the notion as applied to toddlers, but I think it applies fairly well to learning what variables mean in a codebase. Especially one written to be terser-than-terse.