"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler" seems a good rule to design languages by. The common case should be expressible with as little syntacti

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler" seems a good rule to design languages by. The common case should be expressible with as little syntactic friction as possible, without making the language ambiguous or unreadable. ": class inherits public" is just 23 characters of pointless line noise.