Syntax Du Jour

If you were to design a language right now which syntax tradition would you follow?

1. C/C++/C#/PHP/Perl
2. Lisp/Common Lisp/Scheme/... Lisp/... Lisp
3. ISWIM/ML/OCaml/Haskell
4. Prolog/Erlang
5. Pascal/... Pascal/... Pascal/... Pascal/... Pascal/Ada
6. FIOC
7. Bash/Ruby
8. BASIC/... BASIC/... BASIC/xBase/FoxPro/COBOL/SQL/FORTRAN77/shit
9. Other
A. Forth
B. Brainfuck
C. INI files
D. XML
E. CSV

>>21
``Quiver in fear''? Are you superstitious? Do you believe the computer will bite you if you don't walk on eggshells whenever using it? Is it a puppet that comes alive and crawls into your mouth at night to take the place of your real tongue?

>>22
Is it a puppet that comes alive and crawls into your mouth at night to take the place of your real tongue?
Almost there, it is when you bite the puppet tongue in your mouth to get it away from you, only to discover you bit your own tongue, because a new scope didn't come about to shadow the real tongue. Now the puppet tongue is also your real tongue, forever. And then a lambda popped out.