A lot of languages have had type declarations at the end. The first popular which comes to mind is Pascal (see http://wiki.freepascal.org/Fibonacci_number http:

A lot of languages have had type declarations at the end. The first popular which comes to mind is Pascal (see http://wiki.freepascal.org/Fibonacci_number http://wiki.freepascal.org/Fibonacci_number). You get used to it. Having to deal with this kind of differences between different programming languages is a lesser concern in the grand scheme of things.