People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?