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It's implied.

What if someone that had no idea about programming came over and told you that you could program faster if you used a for loop, without ever reading your code? They probably think I suck at programming, or think a bit too much of themselves.

This is a mathematician telling canned packaging experts that they could save money by considering the size of the can.




We are talking about asking though. Like "why don't you just use a for loop? Wouldn't that be faster?" or "I think that a for loop would be faster, why are you not using it?", both seem absolutely fine to me.


I think we are talking about telling rather than asking though. “I told the cat food company they could save money.


I am only defending the sentences starting with "why don't you just" and ending with a "?". I am not defending nor support aggressive ones like the one that you mentioned.




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