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Re:Lisp-Flavored Programming Languages by randallsquared on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:14PM (#21644953)
Actually, in my experience detractors tend to fixate on the

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that ends some lispy code.
Re:Lisp-Flavored Programming Languages by madmulita on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:24AM (#21647008)
Yet are completely fine with things like:

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          }
        }
      }
   }
Re:Lisp-Flavored Programming Languages by krapp on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @07:48PM (#21653734)
At the very least that is more readable due to the indents and the extra syntax. Depending on what language you're using, those different common groups of tokens do communicate context, whereas a dozen right-parens on a single line really don't.