[Roboprog]

That wasn’t very nice, but it felt spot on.

Curly braces are the chicken nuggets and fries of computer science, lol.

Within about 18 months at university (80s), I learned BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal and Lisp. Syntax, yeah, whatever.

(We transitioned to C later, to my horror, with an eye towards a future using “C with classes”)

[allover]

> Syntax, yeah, whatever.

The vast majority of the programming world simply doesn't seem to agree.

[Roboprog]

True.

Don’t expect me to be happy about that, though.

I’ll even upvote your comment, as it does matter a little. Too bad C is what “we” settled for.