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Jean-Papoulos11/04/20251 replyview on HN

This style is inherently worse because there's no spaces. My brain has been wired since 4 years old to read words, not letters. Words are separated by spaces. Havingnospacesbetweenwordsmakesthemexponentiallyhardertoreadandcomprehend.


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t-311/04/2025

Your spaceless sentence is quite easy to read though. It's not even 10% harder to read. Humans are quite good at recognizing patterns.