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by marcus_holmes 1913 days ago
yes, this. Completely.

Is that more readable or less?

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For who? Beginners or experts?
Experts. Optimising your whole notation for beginners is pre-emptively putting up a skill ceiling. Beginners stop being beginners (at which point they’ll outgrow the beginner oriented syntax) but experts will remain experts.

Instead, optimise for teaching/learning the skills better rather than capping everyone’s skills. The presence of a learning curve is not an inherently bad thing.

Edit: re-reading your previous comments, I think you and I are in furious agreement haha