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A comment on Vim creator Bram Moolenaar's forgotten programming language, Zimbu. Parent comment

Re:Vim creator Bram Moolenaar's forgotten programming langua... by sltkr on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:29PM (#37257242)
Why do we put spaces after punctuation in English?It's completely redundant.actually,why even put a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence?it can obviously be inferred.

OK, I'll stop now, but the point is: matching braces provide visual structure that's helpful to read code, even if it's syntactically redundant.

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Re:Vim creator Bram Moolenaar's forgotten programming langua... by sph on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:25AM (#37259056)
Prose is not a programming language, isn't it obvious?

One is designed for machines to parse unambiguously, the other has grown organically and chaotically over hundreds of years. Machine parsing has never been a design concern.

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Re:Vim creator Bram Moolenaar's forgotten programming langua... by frodowtf on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:31AM (#37259413)
Indentation provides visual structure. Matching braces hardly add value to it.
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