fascinating topic, but does anyone else feel like the text is hard to read?

something about choice of words and sentence structure feels... un-prose-like

kace91 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I’m a not a native speaker so take it with a grain of salt, but I think it’s the cadence of phrases.

Writers can use it as a tool by playing with the length and complexity of phrases - to create speed or calm, for example.

When the rythm doesn’t change, and there’s a succession of similar-length simple statements for a long time, it sounds robotic after a while:

“I run this command. Then that problem happened. This caused something else . I addressed the issue. Something else happened. Now I adress it.”

This is not a criticism toward the author to be clear, I was just curious about what caused your feeling and checked.

elric 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought it made for a clear and pleasant read. Not sure what your hangup is, but to each their own. "Un-prose-like" sounds like a compliment.

shmel 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

English isn't his native language? Perhaps that's why

	▲	bluetomcat 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Their English is sufficiently good. It's a cultural aspect regarding writing style. When Russians and most Eastern Europeans write about technical subjects, they tend to be concise, dense and straightforward. Americans, on the other hand, are over-expressive and tend to saturate their writing with pointless metaphors and rhetorical devices.