[mst]

Huh. My brain says logically I should find that better, but the -lack- of punctuation is making it really tricky to skim read the way I do most languages.

I'm not arguing the example you found sand-in-the-eyes is necessarily good but my mental skim reading algorithm copes with it much better.

[blksv]

It is indeed harder to skim, and I find myself much more relying on syntax highlighting and file outline when working in Ada than in C++. Not due to the lack of punctuation, though, which is in place but serves the guiding role only (it is MLs that tend to abolish all the unnecessary punctuation), but because of the overall dense style.

But while it is harder to _skim_, it is easier to _read_, as you don't have to concentrate on and decipher the syntax, risking to miss some of the crucial elements (oh, how do I hate missing ampersands in C++!).