Plan 9 is forked by Bell Labs

And development continues on under the new name "Plan 9 Front" by Bell Labs.

http://www.osnews.com/comments/24957

Also, guess who is the official mascot of Plan 9 Front?

https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/Mascot

Yes, it's for real.

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that's not "syntax"

The syntax is s-expressions.

For example, your argument doesn't hold water for Scheme, where meaning is always lexically visible. (or at least is by convention.)

Also your argument doesn't hold on the other side for C++, which has more keywords than just about any language AND the ability to have understood environments via the this pointer and "using"