On Jun 28, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Language-specific indentation isn't *nearly* as important in clojure
> as paren-matching. Writing in most languages - clojure among them
> without smart indentation ranges from inconvenient to hard. Writing in
> a LISP without paren matching starts at hard and quickly escalates to
> painful.


Oh yeah, I agree. I should have listed paren-matching too. But for me 
indentation is also in the essential category.

-Lee

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