[jrub]

The "unnecessary syntax" that a lot of people tend to loathe, I actually prefer. Maybe not semi-colons, but it takes me a day or two to get out of/into the habit of typing semi-colons at the end of each line, so it's not a big deal.

But on the whole, I dislike whitespace-strict syntax (python for example). I'd much rather have my curly braces simply for the specificity they apply to the code for opening and ending blocks.