> Would anyone choose a language solely based on whether separators were required or not? Is your productivity dramatically increased by the choice of required

> Would anyone choose a language solely based on whether separators were required or not? Is your productivity dramatically increased by the choice of required separators? Of course not. It may if you have to switch between languages. Getting syntax errors because of dummy separators can be quite frustrating at times. So the choice is mandatory separator or optional separators. I designed a language once in which most punctuation characters where treated as blanks.