Comment by klibertp

I suspect the GP might not like Rhombus because it uses indentation (like Python) for code blocks instead of braces (which isn't actually Algol-like; IIRC, Algol mostly used parentheses). In that case, even Pyret wouldn't work for them.

Personally, I'm still (25 years into programming) undecided: does syntax not matter at all, matter only a bit, or is one of a language's most important characteristics? It's incredibly hard to say, at least for me.