Syntax is usually not much of a worry to me, compared to other problems (how will I lock this object for access from other threads? what should be the interface

Syntax is usually not much of a worry to me, compared to other problems (how will I lock this object for access from other threads? what should be the interface for such and such callback?) It doesn't take long after starting to program in a language for syntax to become second nature, and often it can express something more concisely, or even elegantly than plain english (point-free haskell is an art... when it's not overdone, anyway). Being able to find commands in the API is nice, but that's basically intellisense or hyperspec made automatic.