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People tend to complain about excessive verbosity of some languages. However today with completion in every editor this should not be an issue, so why not use Pascal?

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The problem with verbosity isn’t writing the boilerplate. It’s adding to the mental overhead of reading it

I'll claim without proof that if you are used to the language the mental overhead of "begin" and "end" is not bigger than for { and }.

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