Ilya Razmanov <ily### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> ...and those newcomers will quickly find themselves producing mixed
> syntaxis, then trying to understand what the heck is this.

As I use Nim, I agree with this aspect very much. I chose Nim because it looks
like Python, but it is nothing like it. It takes a while to forget Python, but
then it's all fine.

For the rest of it, a well designed language should need "no" tooling. Imagine
that all books where printed colour coded, verbs in green etc. And then users
start to nag that it should be printed in dark mode .... Colour does not matter
for me as I mostly have set Windows to greyscale, Ctrl+win+C.

What Python has shown is that readability counts and that there is very little
need for line noise, arrows, squiggles and what not. In some aspects Nim takes
it even further. And the they broke it with the @ and type stuff in python and
{.pragmas.} in Nim.

POV-Ray has a lot of '#', I never liked that, nor the constant need to
#declare/#local. In Nim and probably others too, that is solved in an elegant
way :

var
  chicken ...
  swan ...
  duck ...

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