What's funny is when we program we use ASCII art (indentation, things like the fact that [ and ] cause symmetric "box" look) to help us. If text was really all

What's funny is when we program we use ASCII art (indentation, things like the fact that [ and ] cause symmetric "box" look) to help us. If text was really all we needed, writing minified JS directly would be ok. Given a keyboard and a mouse, this was the fastest way to create nested boxes (ASTs) that have non-tree links (names): type out a serialization of it that your fancy text editor automatically ASCII-artifies.