Personally, I still have symbol-overload PTSD from my Perl 4 days. When I see a flurry of that many symbols crunched together, followed by a dev saying "what's weird about them", I stay far far away from that language. Could just be me.
I was asking what's weird about the variable naming convention which the OP made a remark about.
You will actually find that Nim typically avoids operators. For example, boolean expressions use `and`, `or` instead of `&&`, `||`. I personally like that a lot.
Having to write `public` before every procedure would, on the other hand, be a massive PITA :)
I agree, I think ruby strikes the perfect balance between symbols and words, and I think that spirit has been kept alive in crystal despite it's syntax extensions. I truly enjoy crystal's "visual weight" (apart from proc syntax, thats just ugly).
Personally, I still have symbol-overload PTSD from my Perl 4 days. When I see a flurry of that many symbols crunched together, followed by a dev saying "what's weird about them", I stay far far away from that language. Could just be me.