[gokr]

Just curious about what you refer to as "excessive punctuation"? You mean blocks []?

There are no statement separators (!) in Spry and the grammar is very, very minimalistic. You could argue in some ways Spry is "a Lisp without parenthesis", and although I like indentation (Nim uses it) for scoping I also find Smalltalk VERY readable.

Also, it's not yet apparent but the syntax/grammar of Spry (and homoiconicity) makes it very suitable for DSL construction, very much similar to Rebol/Red.