Years ago I remember reading Visual Studio c++ patch notes that mentioned having fixed a bug with having more than 255-deep nested parentheses. Good times
The max at my job is 20 and it's already horrifying. (C# though) (The variable naming also sucks, a bool 'ok' is constantly overwritten and 12/20 indents are 'if (ok) { ') (guess who's leaving that job, large part because of the coding practices)
The person who decided that the case ... of statement in Bash should use unpaired right parentheses has found a soulmate and/or a mortal nemesis in abandoned-quiche.
When I was a child, English had the convention of alternating parentheses with brackets (so a nested thought [like this (or this)] would be slightly easier to place within shifting contexts).
Seems like a good solution, but I’ve found excessive nesting of thoughts has a side effect of making a writer sound distracted or just a bit more difficult to follow.
I used this as a strategy for nested parenthesis when I was writing in school but my teachers always told me to just break things into more sentences. Which was honestly probably the correct move. At this point my favorite method for dealing with this has become footnotes, we need more footnotes in novels and casual reading. The only time I've ever seen that done is in The Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud, in which he greatly overuses them, and I absolutely loved it.
I did that when doing pen and paper maths (or in the occasional latex), but now that my maths are exclusive programming is full nested parenthesis all the way.