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Re:Formatting code should be unnecessary by jraph on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:09AM (#45167796)
The "code is data" aspect of lisp seems orthogonal to how code is still written as text, and btw lisp is still written using text. You still need to indent all these parentheses.

Virtually all programming languages are parsed into ASTs, and these ASTs can be serialized back. This is what formatters/"prettifiers" usually do.

Did I miss something?

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