From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:43:59 +0100   
   David Brown  wrote:   
      
   > On 26/11/2025 19:42, bart wrote:   
   > > On 26/11/2025 16:37, David Brown wrote:   
   > >> On 26/11/2025 16:44, bart wrote:   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Well, it would be a minority. Grown-up languages with decent syntax   
   > > exist such as Ada and Fortran; those are not that popular. People   
   > > prefer brace-based languages such as C, Java, Go, Zig, Rust.   
   > >   
   > > Anything without braces isn't taken as seriously, eg. scripting   
   > > languages.   
   >   
   > What a /very/ strange way to distinguish or classify languages.  And   
   > what a bizarre way to generalise what people think, as though all   
   > programmers share the same opinions.   
   >   
      
   I think that Bart is spot on.   
   Curly languages are much more likely to be widely accepted than others.   
   The difference between Bart and me is that I like it.   
      
   I strongly prefer VHDL over Verilog, but that's due to semantics and   
   despite too wordy syntax of the former.   
      
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