Useless parentheses?
myFn(x,y,z);
(myFn x y z) - assigning values to variables
- function definitions
- denoting elements of structures
- if, for and while control flow
- fields of structs or objects
- etc
Once I transpiled the example code from the Janet site[0] to Python (I don't speak Janet.) You can compare them, and count the parentheses, and the syntactic clues in general: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34846516
[0] : https://janet-lang.org/
The major diff is that with imperative langs you are not using functions as much as with functional programming langs. Even though in C# and other langs functional patterns becomes more and more common. Which is also my main criticism against functional programming langs. Functional programming is just a design pattern among others. Lispians will disagree.
During the last 25 years I heard this garbage over and over that functional programming will take over. I worked at companies that invested heavily in some of the functional programming langs (like F#). All of them have been heavily crippled by it. If functional programming was so great it would have conquered the world by now. It has been around 4-5 times longer than smartphones. It is simply garbage. Practice and theory are two different beasts.