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by stevebmark 517 days ago
Lisp is an objectively goofy language,* I appreciate someone pointing out the pain points around trying to cobble together readability via indentation.

* Not a bad language - well, maybe bad by today's standards, but undeniably a very important language - just goofy

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What languages do you use are readable without indentation? I guess other than Python, where indentation actually contributes towards correctness rather than it just being optional.
Well, there is also https://nim-lang.org as well as a pretty big list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side_rule . Just expanding, not trying to invalidate your valid question!
APL?

(For certain values of readable)

But well, it's actually the most readable and meaningful language... to APL programmers.