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		sph on Nov 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A few examples of Lisp code typography (2013) You have indentation, sections and chapters (files) in programming as well. Honestly, I would understand criticising the noise of parens. Not of their contents.

db48x on Nov 26, 2022 [–]

In some types of Lisp programming (such as Emacs lisp), it is common to use Form–Feed characters as chapter breaks within a file. Alas, some newer languages like Rust really don’t like that.

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