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> But the future readers of your code don't have this advantage.

Future readers also don't have access to my brain state when I'm implementing the program. Whether in Lisp or in Haskell or in C or in Python. This is kind of a nonsensical point. Iterating over a solution in Java and in Lisp it amounts to the same thing: code in a file. There's nothing keeping you from documenting.



And nothing that really enforces it either, other than our own individual moral fiber, and possibly social convention.




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