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by notacoward 2497 days ago
A thousand times this. I could come up with a whole bunch of arguments in favor of either side, but they all pale in significance compared to this.

What I really wish is that we had better ways to express indentation or alignment than just these two. Or to associate inline commentary with code other than by using either spaces or tabs to fake a two-column layout. Separating content from presentation, including affordances for the visually impaired, is practically a solved problem for other kinds of text. Why not adopt some of those same techniques for the text we work with every day?