If it reduces cognitive load, why not?
A positive side effect could be that all those millions of tutorials that teach syntax in the name of teaching programming disappear.
A positive side effect could be that all those millions of tutorials that teach syntax in the name of teaching programming disappear.
But I still have to disagree: Standardization is a good idea for topics that are "done". But I strongly believe that we still do not know the best syntax, the best way of programming in the general.
Tal is obviously not a language that wants to replace your mainstream language of choice. Its syntax is not totally original, but is inspired from old languages like Forth. I believe we need such experiments to keep old but not (yet) mainstream ideas alive and to foster innovation.
Tal has advantages for the use case it was designed for, that would be difficult or impossible to achieve with more "standard" syntaxes. What is not to love about that?
Maybe experiments like this will someday lead to the inclusion of new ideas into our mainstream languages, like lambda expressions/closures have become normal over the last decade?