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Where would you put Lua on this spectrum?

Also, I do not find Lisp unreadable - you train your brain to ignore the parens and look at the indentation instead pretty quickly. And you can always tell Emacs to gray out the parens if you really want. ;-)



> you train your brain to ignore the parens and look at the indentation instead pretty quickly

But I don’t want to train my brain to ignore useless syntactic noise, I want my brain to be guided by helpful syntactic guides.


Good point, but if you start treating indentation as part of the syntax, we all know where it would lead...




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