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by mistrial9 44 days ago
its because some people learned to put meaning into different ways to layout dense expressions, or different kinds of comments in difference contexts.

python was "weird" at first to C-tribe, because of the strict layout used to eliminate some of the syntax tokens. These stories come from a time before "order over all" in some factory code base was seen as Universally a virtue of some kind