# The delightful conciseness of Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-delightful-conciseness-of-julia/40947>\
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**Created:** [June 7, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-delightful-conciseness-of-julia/40947 "2020-06-07T20:31:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-delightful-conciseness-of-julia/40947/2 "2020-06-08T06:54:53Z")

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Please post quoted code — screenshots are difficult to read.

> [@PSA: how to quote code with backticks](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-how-to-quote-code-with-backticks/7530):
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> This is a short post on how to use backticks (` and ```) to quote code, so it is easy to read. This post can be linked to new users who are confused by this feature. Why By quoting your code, you get a monospaced font (which preserves indentation) and syntax highlighting. This makes it easier to read your code and help you. Displayed code looks like this: function displayed\_code(x::Int, y::Int) if x \< y println("x is smaller") else println("or not") end end Inline…

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