The language’s syntax seems to be influenced by languages designed by Wirth, such as Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon. These languages have many fans, but they hav

The language’s syntax seems to be influenced by languages designed by Wirth, such as Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon. These languages have many fans, but they have quite verbose syntax compared to either languages influenced by C or those influenced by the ML family. Personally I prefer more terse syntax, but I’ve heard some people defend the style of more verbose languages like Pascal and Java when writing large programs.