As a programming language dilletante, who has poked around in most interesting languages and dipped into many communities, a major syntax change seems like a ve

As a programming language dilletante, who has poked around in most interesting languages and dipped into many communities, a major syntax change seems like a very bad idea. That said, if you're going to get rid of parens, look at Haskell. It is actually a very Lisp-y language, where the parens are mostly optional.