I already mentioned sweet-expressions in another comment. And also, there&#x27;s one important thing we&#x27;re forgetting when discussing syntaxes, which is the fact that we very rarely read the code without syntax highlighting, so the examples you posted actually look like this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pygments.org&#x2F;demo&#x2F;3781004&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pygments.org&#x2F;demo&#x2F;3781004&#x2F;</a><p>This does change the situation somewhat.