wjhonson@aol.com wrote:

My entire point Neil was simply that, "short-time-to-learn" should also be a consideration.? To me, a language that borrows heavily from an *already known* source like English or even BASIC is easier to learn, than one which requires that every command be learned again without any prior foundation.? I am not a subscriber to tech.? I don't think I want to be.

Wikitech-l is undoubtedly the right forum for this discussion, so we really should continue this discussion there.

I find it rather difficult to understand exactly what you want here. Could you please give an example, even a rough one, of the sort of syntax you are proposing?

For example, how would you write something like, say, this artificial example:

{{#switch: {{#iferror: {{#expr: {{{1}}} + {{{2}}} }} | error | correct }} | error = that's an error | correct = {{{1}}} + {{{2}}} = {{#expr: {{{1}}} + {{{2}}} }}}}

in your new notation?

-- Neil