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Complex-looking symbols can also make things easier.

Do you want to stare at 100000LOC of if/else, for and function declaration statements? Me neither.

Ligatures solve that problem.

Ligatures supposedly heal cancer. My grandfather built a tool in his garden with his bare hands and llligatures

With a good code-editor, these complex-looking symbols can also always be shown in an easier language, on-demand and opt-in.

Then it is also almost like a two-factor definition. Once it is defined through the symbol and twice through the easy, canonical easy language explanation. The easy language explanation must also be specced then.

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