Curly braces offend? There are other language families than C-descended, you know :D Delphi goes for /reading/ code. My experience - and anecdotally, reading

Curly braces offend? There are other language families than C-descended, you know :D Delphi goes for /reading/ code. My experience - and anecdotally, reading comments others say - is that it is a literate, readable, clear language. One of the biggest problems with long-term coding and big projects is "write-only code", and the language can help.