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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:05:59 -0700
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Sebastian <sebastian@here.com.invalid> writes:

> In comp.unix.programmer Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:13:33 -0000 (UTC), Sebastian wrote:
>>
>>> In comp.unix.programmer Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:32:26 -0000 (UTC), Sebastian wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In comp.unix.programmer Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> Says the guy who finds a few brackets so confusing that he
>>> Black-formatted a snippet of Lisp code.
>>
>> I use the same principles in all my code.  (And I have no idea about
>> this ?Black?  thing.  I just do my thing.)
>
> Black is a Python program that formats Python code
> almost exactly the way you formatted that snippet of Lisp
> code.  It's just as ugly in Python as it is in Lisp.  Black
> spreads by convincing organizations to mandate its use.  It's
> utterly non-configurable on purpose, in order to guarantee
> that eventually, all Python code is made to be as ugly
> and unreadable as possible.

Thank you for this short description.