I always thought there was a use for something like RATFOR for Pascal; maybe Ratscal? It could have left most of the verbosity in place, but replaced the BEGIN

I always thought there was a use for something like RATFOR for Pascal; maybe Ratscal? It could have left most of the verbosity in place, but replaced the BEGINs and ENDs with { and }, and that would have made it an almost perfect language from my point of view.