The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions

Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by liability on Saturday August 31, 2019 @09:31PM (#20849986)

I don't know man, I like those parens. They turn basically any text editor into a basic structural editor. Commands like Vim's % can jump to the matching paren easily, and pretty much all programmer text editors have a feature to highlight the matching paren.

So to me it's not a matter of subjective taste but rather pragmatism. S-expressions are just easier to edit.

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Re:The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions by breck on Saturday August 31, 2019 @10:04PM (#20850102)

I totally agree that in the world without tools designed for Tree Notation, stick with the parens.

But I also think the world without parens will be a much better place, once we get there with the tooling and ecosystem.

I don't know how long that will take. 2020 I hope?

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