Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:15:16 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <87plv6jv1i.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 05:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c272b04af259c394792dde53c800b5b3"; logging-data="2974306"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18OsDQ+k2XIWCFMCZ6Zpn+amwGgBszMYVI=" User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (Linux/6.1.0-18-amd64 (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yzt36Q8UuqFqJmubm6aLjvCMv0Y= Bytes: 2341 In comp.unix.programmer Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:13:33 -0000 (UTC), Sebastian wrote: > >> In comp.unix.programmer Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:32:26 -0000 (UTC), Sebastian wrote: >>> >>>> In comp.unix.programmer Lawrence D'Oliveiro 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.