> And Lint is only necessary due to unfortunate syntax design choices.  In
> better designed languages, the things that Lint catches aren't legal in t=
he
> first place.  For how many other languages have people felt the need to
> create Lint-like tools?

Every compiler that has warnings has an implicit lint-like functionality.

C has a lot of unfortunate syntax choices. On the other hand, Pascal,=20
Modula and Ada made much better choices, yet we are (almost) all using C=20
(or C++, javascript, java, C#, or some other C derivate). Why? I guess C=20
must have done something right, but I am not sure what it is.

Maybe Python will decide the battle for against the curly braces. With=20
TCL and Perl in its group it sure has had very little resistance so far=20
in the battle for reasonable syntax, let' see how well it does in the=20
nock-out phase :)

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