When given the opportunity to vocalize an "ideal" language, people came up with things like "c but where long isn't the same as int" or "julia, but with curly braces"

19 mentions of "syntax", only 1 mention of "semantics"

The journey to enlightenment is a long one... if only syntax was a little better... syntax doesn't matter in the least... syntax matters, but not at all how I originally thought.