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by davidw 4116 days ago
> S-expressions are uniform in that they all look the same way.

If you treat the language as a user interface to your computer, shouldn't things that do different things have different appearances, to help you distinguish them at a glance?
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mateuszf 4116 days ago
The braces become "invisible" after some training. Different elements of the program are distingishable. "+" is different from "if", which is different from "42".
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davidw 4116 days ago
It's all about people, so there are likely not cut and dried answers, but I know I have always found C style code a bit easier to read than Lisp style code. Part of this may be due to other conventions, such as larger indents in C code.

Like you say, with training, the differences are probably not that big a deal, but I don't think they are something to completely ignore, either.

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atratus 4116 days ago
the point is to free yourself to focus on semantics rather than endlessly learning syntax
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doodpants 4116 days ago
Could you clarify? In what language(s) is the learning of syntax "endless"?
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