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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by nabla9 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @07:55AM (#23997051)
Common Lisp symbols and naming convention takes reading aloud into account well.
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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by Insanity on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:11AM (#23997153)
Yes, the naming convention does but the source code itself does not lend itself to it greatly with all the parentheses.

     open paren sum open paren tick one two three close paren close paren
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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by nabla9 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @09:52AM (#23998108)
That's not how you say it.
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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by OrderlyTiamat on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:07AM (#23999053)
How do you say it?
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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by amp108 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @06:38PM (#24003611)
You elide the parenthesis. They are as unnecessary when speaking Lisp code aloud as saying "comma", "period", or "question mark" are in everyday conversation.
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