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Comment by tialaramex

6 days ago

The usual way people get here is that they didn't realise programs are for reading by humans. That's why we have formatting conventions (the compiler doesn't care but humans do) and so it's also why a single syntax is important.

If there are six syntaxes for a hypothetical language L, then either every L practitioner must learn all six syntaxes (ew, no thanks) or most L programmers can't read each other's programs and so it's basically unmaintainable.