I used to have an irrational fear for curly braces and semicolons, given BASIC looks clean and simple. I see that now in some young programmers who try to stick

I used to have an irrational fear for curly braces and semicolons, given BASIC looks clean and simple. I see that now in some young programmers who try to stick to Python. Interestingly, seeing Rust code for the first time also reminded me of that.