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Many people find deeply nested tree structures hard to read when you need to mentally balance a bunch of parentheses. The inability for s-expression languages t
by peterhunt 10y ago
Many people find deeply nested tree structures hard to read when you need to mentally balance a bunch of parentheses. The inability for s-expression languages to gain significant traction with lay programmers is evidence of this.
- reddit_clone 10y agoPeople who use Lispy languages do _not_ balance parenthesis mentally. In fact they completely ignore parenthesis and go only by indentation. Parenthesis disappear when you are at certain level of proficiency.
- peterhunt 10y agoYep, but most people don't get to that level of proficiency.