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1 point by akkartik 4535 days ago | link | parent

"But that probably has nothing to do with programming language syntax per se."

Why do you say that? Syntax is notation. Check out this paper by the guy who invented APL, when they gave him his Turing award: http://awards.acm.org/images/awards/140/articles/9147499.pdf



2 points by nburns 4535 days ago | link

I don't disagree with you. I was arguing for the value of well-written prose.

Donald Knuth thinks that programs should be more like prose (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming) -- not that I've ever tried, or fully understand, literate programming.

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