That's a lot of words to declare oneself a masochist

Or if being verbose is desired, do you want to do a job for a computer that you are not suited to do but the computer is?

I didn't forget to respond. I consider minimal syntactic sugar a big, not a feature.

The answer to this is Scheme.

Why in God's name would I want minimal syntactic sugar?

I want optimal syntactic sugar.

Everyone has a different idea of what 'optimal' means here.

> I want optimal syntatic sugar

Like Rust or C++ templates? I prefer C syntax over the "optimal" alternative.

Why in god's name would Rust or C++ templates be the optimal amount (or optimal syntactic sugar design)?

Well, that's my point! There is no alternative with "optimal syntactic sugar design". You have to choose between something 'minimalistic' (C) and something less minimalistic (i.e. Rust).