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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 09:29:50 +1000
Subject: Re: OT: This Swift thing
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Eric S. Johansson <esj@harvee.org> wrote:
> On the other hand, curly braces are royal pain to dictate or navigate around
> when programming with speech recognition.

I've never done that, in any language, but if I had to guess, I'd say
that both braces and indentation are harder to work with than a REXX
style where *everything* is words. :)

ChrisA