Larry Wall's comment on python...

[James J. Besemer]

Chris Gonnerman wrote:

>I just like that I don't have to type the #!$&@!! things 
>anymore.
>
>No smiley this time... I really hate typing curly after curly.
>It makes me wonder that anyone *likes* the freakin' things so
>much that they named a LANGUAGE after them.
>
They are a hell of an improvement over "begin" and "end".

But I agree, leaving them out altogether is even better.

--jb