> When I think about writing my own language, I think of something with as few parenthesis as possible Just swap [] with (), then they're a lot easier to hit.

> When I think about writing my own language, I think of something with as few parenthesis as possible Just swap [] with (), then they're a lot easier to hit. It's weird that parentheses are shifted but square brackets are not: the former are a lot more common in English text than the latter, as well as in many programming languages.