Comment by foxfluff
4 years ago
Yep. It's mostly a knee jerk reaction.
After accustomization with a style that doesn't force explicit declarations of identifiers and their types, verbose type conversions, line breaks and indentation after every statement and brace, etcetra., one could definitely make a different (and similarly exaggerated) human language metaphor. For example, take some English text and feed it through a parser. Feels good to read?
(S (NP Parsing)
(VP refers
(PP to
(NP (NP the activity)
(PP of
(S (VP analysing
(NP a sentence)
(PP into
(NP its component categories and functions))))))))
.)
That's a bit how mainstream languages feel after using something that hasn't been forced into such an artificial form :) If you're willing to let go of that, you can write sentences and clauses on the same line, almost like prose!
Hehe that's actually a nice way to put it. So it's a little bit like the red pill, you can't really go back after going embracing Whitney C :D