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by davidw 4220 days ago
I wonder what some of the design guys would say about the information contained here and its readability:

https://github.com/stuarthalloway/programming-clojure/blob/m...

https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/blob/master/generic/tclCompile....

Grabbed at random. I think the larger indentation and fewer parens do make a difference when you squint at things.

Of course, I also think as a professional programmer, if something does the job, get over it and get on with it. I use Erlang myself, which also gets lots of syntax complaints.

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I write clojure and a little bit of C and I find the clojure part extremely more readable...
Is it because it simply does a lot more with less code, though?

Just squinting at the code to see the shape of it rather than worrying about the contents, the C blocks look more distinct, to me.

probably every let's say "method" are cleaner, and you can actually say what is happening.

C is more dispersive...

Thought I code way more clojure than C