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So is brainfuck, and whitespace. This isn't really a useful thing to point out.

For any sort of script thats going to be run many times and may need to be improved or extended, readability is a huge plus.



Awk is incredibly readable in a shell script. It's a proper scripting language that actually looks cleaner than the Bourne shell.


BF and whitespace are LOLCODE, and thus not "real" for my purposes.




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