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What does the literature say? Is it known (as in quantitatively) if significant indentation is a good thing, or a bad thing?
by sgt101 9y ago
What does the literature say?
Is it known (as in quantitatively) if significant indentation is a good thing, or a bad thing?
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- smitherfield 9y agoI think it's a bit of a bikeshed-type issue. Subjectively, languages with significant indentation (Python, F#, Nim, Coffeescript, Haskell, etc) are often thought to have nicer-looking syntax.
- sgt101 9y agoIf I had the patience I would try and measure something about the productivity of those languages vs. opensource projects (not at all sure what) and control a lot of things and do lots of stats and then write it all up and then realize that no one else cares.
- ufo 9y agoThere is very little literature about objectively comparing programming languages like you are asking here.
- sgt101 9y agoI know.... Computer Science research has some huge issues!