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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:42:20 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Jason Catena<jason.catena@gmail.com> wrot=
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> Devon's anecdote is along the lines of my position. =A0I'm sure there's
> a paper somewhere that counts parenthesis versus whitespace errors,
> but I haven't yet read it. =A0I have programmed Lisp and Haskell (at two
> extremes), and from this experience at least much prefer whitespace to
> parentheses. =A0In addition, I rely on design theory (esp. Tufte et al
> on his web site) that reducing clutter aids comprehension, and
> delimiters very much seem clutter to me.
>
> Jason Catena
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