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My crazy take is that there needs to be a interpretative language alternative to Python which uses brackets to define scope and/or things like elif/else/fi/endif/done. Much easier that way in my opinion, and the ";" shouldn't be necessary. I'm used to Python, but if I had another language which can be used to serve similar purpose to Python with those features, I would never code in Python again when it comes up.
Having to code in Julia and G'MIC (Domain-Specific Interpretative language that is arguably the most flexible for raster graphics content creation and editing), they're the closest to there, but they're more suitable for their respective domain than generic ones.
Have you heard the good news about our lord and savior Ruby?
Ruby does that (well you use the keyword "end" instead of a bracket) but it fell out of favor before it got as big as python, to my knowledge, because of worse multithreaded performance in comparison (which I think has been fixed) and a bias towards unix systems over windows
Seems like it got... Railroaded.
So it is a real perl replacement.
This also applies to C.
C has for, while, do-while, goto and recursion.
How exactly are rescue, inlined conditionals and optionals used for creating loops? Also Ruby's for and while do different things, unlike for and while in C.
Sounds like Bython is the language for you! (only half-joking)
You might enjoy Ruby
Here's something weird. I haven't written a ruby program in 15 years, but I still use
irbas my calculator.I love that :) Try Pry, too!