Tags, Indentation, Curly brackets or Words

Question

Vba uses words to define blocks (if then ... end if).
C/C++/Java uses Curly brackets {}
Python relies in Indentation
Html/Xml are markup languages and uses tags

What do you prefer if you could create your new program language? And why did you chose that?

Answer 1

Never really thought of creating my own programming language... C++ is good as it is. :D

That said, I'm going for curly braces if I had to choose.

Answer 2

I prefer curly brackets style because it's neatness, clarity and easily understandable.

If the statement in the "if" block is a single line you can decide not to use curly braces.

Python indentation is another good option. But might be difficult to managed if you have too many nested conditions.

Answer 3

{
I would definitely go for curly braces because when it comes to nesting, they are the only neat things and makes the code readable.
}