There is a long history of languages using this syntax, including Algol, Pascal, Ruby and Matlab.
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Ford Ox <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any reasoning behind it? It seems to me like a weird choice since > you have to type three letters, which is the complete opposite of the goal > of this language - being very productive (a lot work done with little code). > On top of that, brain has to read the word every time your eyes look at it > so you spend more time also reading the code - tho this should be easy to > omit, by highlighting this keyword by other color than other keywords (the > current purple color in ATOM just drives me crazy, since it is one of the > most violent colors, so my eyes always try to read that useless piece of > information first, instead of the important code). >
