if i could scream something at every programming language designer, it would be that syntactical features like parentheses, semicolons, and curly braces are not there to make it easier for the computer to read, they are there to make it easier for the programmer to read, and when you try to show off how "elegant" your language is because function calls, if statements, or whatever don't require braces or parentheses, you sound like an idiot who has never read or written code before