Comment by __MatrixMan__

This was a fun read, but it left me a bit more sympathetic to the lisp perspective, which (if I've understood it) is that syntax, being not an especially important part of a language, is more of a hurdle than a help, and should be as simple and uniform as possible so we can focus on other things.

Which is sort of ironic because learning how to do structural editing on lisps has absolutely been more hurdle than help so far, but I'm sure it'll pay off eventually.