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Just because you can write everything on one line without any spaces doesn't mean you should.

You can ofcourse removethe capability to do thatand you'll effectively force the programmer to write more venous code, but then its strength as an interfacing tool is very much reduced.

The Iversonian languages has the capability to write incredibly terse code which is really useful when working interactively. When you do, your code truly is write-only because it isn't even saved. This is the majority of code that at least I write in these languages.

When writing code that goes in a file, you can choose which style you want to use, and I certainly recommend making it a bit less terse in those cases. The Iversonian languages are still going to give you organs that are much shorter than most other languages even even it's written in a verbose style.




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