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Why make it complicated? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Frankly, I have way more often ended up scratching my head for some cryptic piece of syntax than the opposite. Sure I could sit down and spend the rest of my life learning each language designer's favourite syntax optimisations, but I kinda don't want to. I'm a human, not a parser.

And frankly, a good IDE editor should be able to fold/unfold verbose syntax. Better for it then to be there and folded, than for it to not be there and for someone to have to work backwards the intendrd meaning of every single line of code.