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j2kun on Nov 17, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: If I were to invent a programming language for the...

Indeed, there's a reason that SQL statements still need formatting and keyword capitalization hints to make it readable.

setr on Nov 18, 2018 [–]

What language doesn’t need formatting to be readable? Have you tried reading whitespace-stripped C/js?

And the caps hint is the same as syntax highlighting... its not even that useful if you have highlighting, but boy is it useful when you don’t

j2kun on Nov 18, 2018 | [–]

That's my point (and the opposite of the author's point)

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