You could ask they the same question about C-like syntaxes? Was it really necessary to invent anything new after somebody had hit upon S-Expressions?
Anyway, to answer in the affirmative: Certain paradigms provide from certain syntax. E.g. Haskell would be much clunkier to write in a C-like syntax than with the ML-derived one it has. And Lisp's macros would be harder to pull off with a different syntax. In my opinion, Python also profits from syntactic differences with C.
Somebody more knowledgeable could talk about SQL-syntax.
> At the very least, people should approach new languages from an ease of typing angle. I look at that and all I can think is "That would be a bitch to type out. Doing it all day? No thank you."
Old languages would also benefit from that approach. We've seen some alternative syntaxes JavaScript, but not really for something like C.
Anyway, to answer in the affirmative: Certain paradigms provide from certain syntax. E.g. Haskell would be much clunkier to write in a C-like syntax than with the ML-derived one it has. And Lisp's macros would be harder to pull off with a different syntax. In my opinion, Python also profits from syntactic differences with C.
Somebody more knowledgeable could talk about SQL-syntax.
> At the very least, people should approach new languages from an ease of typing angle. I look at that and all I can think is "That would be a bitch to type out. Doing it all day? No thank you."
Old languages would also benefit from that approach. We've seen some alternative syntaxes JavaScript, but not really for something like C.