While I started with Basic and and Turbo Pascal, I started to appreciate a lot the curly braces and semicolons because it makes a lot of sense for me (*). There

While I started with Basic and and Turbo Pascal, I started to appreciate a lot the curly braces and semicolons because it makes a lot of sense for me (*). Therefore I see the convergence as a good thing, keeping the best parts of everything and improving with good parts from others. * As opposed to BEGIN-END in SQL, indenting in Python or weirdness of Cobol in the 90s.