effectively bypassing the whole process of parsing... which IMHO is half the fun of writing a compiler Fun for compiler writers, perhaps ;) I am a big fan of l

effectively bypassing the whole process of parsing... which IMHO is half the fun of writing a compiler Fun for compiler writers, perhaps ;) I am a big fan of languages with minimal syntax because complicated grammar affects the user as well. The machine may do the hard work of translating the source code, but the user still has to do some degree of translation of their own in their head while reading it. I view source code as a kind of interface, and I like simple, clean interfaces.