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I think it's worth suspending judgement and opinions about what you think a programming language should be and evaluate it on its own terms. The preceding is
by keithnz 8y ago
I think it's worth suspending judgement and opinions about what you think a programming language should be and evaluate it on its own terms. The preceding is a terse form of the code, you can write it more verbosely. But just like regex, terse forms can be very useful once you understand them.
- wwweston 8y agoI could also see either the existing chain of ascii glyphs becoming more legible with some wisely-chosen syntax highlighting, or an editing environment where the ascii glyphs are used to produce something distinctive, and that might change how developers relate to the symbols.