I’m not thinking of literate programming, no. I’m familiar with that. I’m referring to a fairly well-known recommendation from Clean Code. https://www.baeldung

I’m not thinking of literate programming, no. I’m familiar with that. I’m referring to a fairly well-known recommendation from Clean Code. https://www.baeldung.com/cs/clean-code-formatting#vertical-formatting https://www.baeldung.com/cs/clean-code-formatting#vertical-f... I don’t agree that “anyone who has done any programming” knows it’s not the same. The number of comments to the contrary in this thread is evidence enough. The parallels between natural and programmatic languages are not just undeniable but often useful, and how the human brain models its understanding of code is orthogonal to that utility.