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cm2187 on Nov 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: If I were to invent a programming language for the...

But are’t you describing familiarity rather than readability? Ask a non programmer if he thinks the syntax of c code feels logical and natural.

red75prime on Nov 18, 2018 [–]

Ask me if I think that the syntax of Chinese language feels..., well, like anything at all (punctuation marks are western influence).

cm2187 on Nov 18, 2018 | [–]

Yeah. But if you ask a VB or python programmer who never wrote in a c-style syntax, you will probably get the opposite opinion.

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