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Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display)


From: tomas
Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:19:01 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 08:42:20AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

[...]

> > I'm certain they could read code
> > like that (I can't).
> 
> Sure you can, and write it as well, but for how
> long before your eyes and head would start to
> ache and your whole system communicate "don't
> do it" the minute you sit down by the keyboard?

I guess I should be more precise, then. I was using "read"
in some "literate" sense, as I would read a text. Wha I'd
do with this kind of code would be more "decipher". I is
a much more deliberate (and painful) process.

My point is that those folks most probably "read" this code
in this more literate way, the way I might, e.g. "read" C
code by R. W. Stevens or Knuth's "METAFONT The Program".

Cheers
- -- tomás
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