Board Thread:Suggestions and Ideas/@comment-24191375-20141119065634/@comment-14600979-20150101154555

If it's supposed to be a desktop environment for PTC, why would it have commands or features that PTC doesn't fully support?

As for shortening variables: what if you wanted the code to be readable when exported? A finished product doesn't need as much readability (you'd keep the other copy around for bugfixes), but you can't assume that people would rather have the tiny efficiency boost. At any rate, http://www016.upp.so-net.ne.jp/Khnum/petitcom/SBReduce.html is already there for shortening (but not at the variable level).

The "level" of language (in programming) refers to how far or close it is to machine code/English, for example, assembly is very low (close to machine instruction) and SQL is a very high level language (close to English)