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From: Sebastian <sebastian@here.com.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:13:33 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>>
>>>     a =
>>>         b ?
>>>             c ? d : e
>>>         : f ?
>>>             g ? h : i
>>>         : j;
>> 
>> I find this more confusing than the parentheses.
> 
> Not accustomed to looking at source code in 2D? You have to feel your way 
> from symbol to symbol like brackets, rather than being able to see overall 
> shapes?

Says the guy who finds a few brackets so confusing that he Black-formatted
a snippet of Lisp code.