On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 08:28:05AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Personally, I'd like to remind you that when I designed Python my ideal was to use punctuation in ways that are similar to the way it is used in plain English, with exceptions only for forms commonly found in many other programming languages such as foo.bar. Leading with a comma is most definitely not something one would do in English.
Why not continue evolving from natural language to a programming one? It was good approach at beginning but is nowadays the argument still relevant? Why not to integrate programming experiences into programming language? H. PS: Larry Wall was also designing Perl by natural English language. https://bigthink.com/videos/why-perl-is-like-a-human-language He has brought e.g. the practical statement if condition syntax, which is natural and emphases the statement not the (special) condition.