It is interesting to see this Great Convergence. Even PHP, which started off as a quick-and-dirty language with deliberately vague expressions, converges to the

It is interesting to see this Great Convergence. Even PHP, which started off as a quick-and-dirty language with deliberately vague expressions, converges to the same standard. In my 30-something years of programming (admittedly my first programs were toy-like Pascal pieces of code), I saw only one improvement in this Algol-like style that I considered major: named arguments. Their use improves code readability, at least for me.