We could have "and" and "cand" (conditional and, his terminology), which would be more explanatory. Or we use "and" (conditional) and "ncand" (non-conditional a

We could have "and" and "cand" (conditional and, his terminology), which would be more explanatory. Or we use "and" (conditional) and "ncand" (non-conditional and). Depending on which should be the default. > More generally, I'm not sure of the benefit of tailoring the language syntax for beginners rather than experienced practitioners; the advantage of '&&', '||' and the rest of the "C-like" syntax stuff in a new language is that it's familiar to a wide base of existing experienced programmers. At one point in time every awkward and outdated syntax was the more familiar option, but that's of course not a good argument not to improve it, otherwise we would be stuck with it forever.