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> undifferentiated sea of lowercase letters just makes my eyes glaze over

Like prose? Books have not many symbols nor syntax highlighting. You have to read the actual words to know what it's talking about.



In prose yes. However there is a structure to dialoge, that is hard to miss, you also have indentations, sections and chapters. Many books have lists for example, but it is usually not prose.


You have indentation, sections and chapters (files) in programming as well.

Honestly, I would understand criticising the noise of parens. Not of their contents.


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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