> It is not really confusing that you can't have both MoveFilesEx and MoveFileSex in the same scope (and that you can refer to a variable or procedure by a either name).

This "feature" makes it just as annoying as dealing with, eg, PHP, where the same codebase may feature NULL or null. It encourages inconsistency.

> Nim just feels like taking this a little farther - making '_' the lower case version of no character.

Yes, because making grep (and search functions from code editors and IDEs) useless is a fantastic idea :(

> That sentiment is very often expressed by people coming from C/C++/Java about Python's indentation (What? Whitespace is significant to semantics? That's awful!).

I have no issue with Python's indentation (apart from the fact that reindenting badly indented Python is not fun). That's a different problem. Whitespace is a different solution, but not particularly confusing.

> In fact, experiments teaching Python to non-programmers indicated that the two biggest confusing issues were case sensitivity and integer division[0].

I feel that basing the design of a language based on the use-cases of non-programmers, for something they will likely not consider an issue after two weeks, at the expense of code maintainability is a mistake.