Do pro software developers memorize programming?

Just to introduce myself. I am programming for 20 years. During that time i learned Pascal, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, C++, Java, C#, PHP, JavaScript, and TypeScript, just to name a few languages.

My answer is based on my experience i gained to become Senior Software Development Consultant.

The questions is: if a programmer memorizes language syntax?

What i can say from my experience is, that i memorized it when starting a professional career. At that time it felt like necessary to get the job i wanted to have, to become a software developer.

Later during my career i didn’t pay special attention to memorizing syntax and function names. Mostly because i have very bad memory for such things.

But i have developed some techniques to be a successful developer in spite of this seemingly important flaw. It ocurred to become important when i started to code in multiple languages at once, and DuckDuckGo lookups started to slow me down.

Here is what i learned about memorizing syntax over these 20 years:

• It is overrated to memorize syntax. 99% of developer work is to find solutions, 1% is actually coding them
• DuckDuckGo is sometimes faster than a memory if you can provide a proper search…