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Modern programming language designers have a bad relationship with verbosity. I don't know why they do this.

It's a lang for an interactive shell, typing literally translates to developer speed. I understand the want for clarity and maybe that's nice in large scripts, but the main goal is to be a shell. So, optimize for that. Also, you probably shouldn't be using powershell for large scripts anyway.

The only recent lang I've seen that has a handle on this is Rust. You can tell they put a lot of thought into having keywords be as short as possible while still being descriptive.