The Great Brace Placement War

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The Great Brace Placement War

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Ah, the eternal holy war of brace placement. Some programmers lose sleep over whether the opening curly brace belongs on the same line or the next. Meanwhile, Haskell programmers are busy putting semicolons in front of statements like they're driving on the left side of the road, and Lisp is over there doing... whatever Lisp does with those parentheses. The real joke is that we spend hours debating syntax while our actual algorithms still don't work.

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