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"Remark 2: my parenthesis-removal rule turns out not to work very well for programming :-)."

This is why everyone should learn Python.

What? Python has way too many parentheses. Why should I have to write foo() to call foo? That's what I want to do with it 99% of the time. Ruby has it right.

It still has many improvements over C. Compare:

void func(x) { if (a == b) { do(c); do(d); } else{ do(e); } } vs:

def func(x): if a == b: do(c) do(d) else: do(e)

I write the first as

void func(int x) { if (a==b) do(c),do(d); else do(e); }

Because how are you going to refer to foo (and not the result of foo) otherwise?

Haskell has it right. And Scheme and Forth of course.

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