From: Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
      
   bart  writes:   
   [...]   
   > 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.   
   [...]   
      
   The use of curly braces vs. begin/end is IMHO trivial.  But most   
   languages that use curly braces are strongly influenced by C,   
   and are likely to share other C features like C-style for loops.   
   Languages that use begin/end or similar are typically influenced,   
   directly or indirectly, by Pascal and/or Algol.   
      
   Someone who dislikes C for whatever reasons will probably dislike   
   most other languages that use curly braces, and not necessarily   
   because of that one syntactic detail.   
      
   --   
   Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
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