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But everybody defining their own syntax would not make a language "the perfect language". Quite the opposite, because nobody would be able to understand each other's code anymore. It would be the ultimate fragmented language.

And because of that, I don't think a perfect language is even theoretically possible. Everybody has their own syntactical preferences, and allowing all of them means fragmentation.



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