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      3 days ago

      Yes, but they’re wrong. All else equal some of vthat stuff might would matter as optimization, though

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          14 hours ago

          Their first comment provided reasoning. This “because that’s the way it is” framing is unfair.

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            The article is 90% about brackets and Polish notation is nearly a footnote. How is the reasoning that “it’s mostly familiarity” sound? When I call doSomething(param, arg, whatever) moving over the left bracket a word isn’t going to confuse people because of “familiarity”.

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          3 days ago

          Some things are obvious, and you can write a whole essay without the base assertion being correct ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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      well, if familiarity can be ruled out, surely there is a quadruply-blind study then? how many participants were there? you need to test teaching lisp first then c and on another group the other way around. you also need to have groups of untrained people and show lisp first, then c, another group for the other way around.