> Example of an unnecessary change, func void main() instead of void main(). Introducing keywords in front of declarations is actually a required syntactical c

> Example of an unnecessary change, func void main() instead of void main(). Introducing keywords in front of declarations is actually a required syntactical change to make the syntax context-free, i.e. to avoid having to carry around a symbol table during syntax parsing, as C requires. (Well, another method would be something like "declaredname :: type { impl }" but it requires more lookahead and it's a much more different syntax). And all modern languages have added something like this. Personally I'm used to the C way and I like it for its terseness, but the modern approach allows for simplified parsers and better tooling. In fact C started out like that just as well: There were only a constant number of keywords, like int, void, struct... that could introduce a declaration. But, with the advent of typedef (and C++ which automatically removes the need for the struct tag for all struct definitions) that changed, and in effect a symbol table is now required for parsing.