> you end up with a language designed with a lot of syntactic cruft (braces, semicolons, ternaries, etc.) meant as aids to compiler authors.
Many of those are not just for the easiness of implementation but also for the quality of partial parsing, frequently required for today's compilers. I do agree that they are not intentionally designed in that way.
Many of those are not just for the easiness of implementation but also for the quality of partial parsing, frequently required for today's compilers. I do agree that they are not intentionally designed in that way.