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Honestly I fail to see a more readable thing, having experience with PHP it is really hard to me to read the snow code. A lot of the syntax just doesnt make sense to me.

There is also another thing that annoys me, the significant whitespaces, that is something I do not like in python (while I like the rest of it, the indentation instead of brackets is annoying), yes I agree that indented code is more readable, and I like to read indented but I like to write my code without caring for indentation and fix it after it is doing what I want (read: tell my IDE to indent it, brackets help on that). The replacement of .= for %= is just added confusion there is really no gain, and the return for <- seems just wrong looks like just a way to avoid using characters. Dropping the semicolons doesnt make much difference to me, but being used to them it could be a problem, when writing in languages that dont require them I write them on habit leading to a long list of syntax errors.

Warning personal rant: Why do people hate java like syntax and brackets WHYYYYYYYYYY? Whats wrong with brackets honestly???

Sorry just had to say that.




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