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Do you also find your pseudocode (and therefore python) clearer, or was it entirely pedagogical?

Redesigning a data format to match how I notate and think about it, to minimize my cognitive load, has been very helpful to me.

The long-term trend in computers seems to be to trade performance for helping the developer.

> when the main goal is communication, not programming per se

This reminds me of debates about the scientific method. Some say that you can test hypotheses etc alone without publishing and you are doing science; but others define science as a community activity, and so without publishing, it is not 'science'. While I love the idea of the lone researcher, and clever insights definitely come from individuals, without a community there is no SOTSOG.