> All I see is that I've been personally attacked and mischaracterized.

I think there is a fundamental gap in communication. Your actual point is not coming across at all, anywhere in this thread.

That's why you're getting downvoted.

"For Pony in particular, the syntax is not important ... it's simply not the point of the language."

You said that in direct response to someone who was wanting to see the syntax. While I do appreciate that it's not strictly speaking necessary in the context of your reply, it doesn't communicate at all why syntax isn't important to the pony language. You're just making a definitive statement unsupported by anything. Context or even a brief explanation would have been extremely helpful and almost certainly avoided all of this fuss. Your response, given without any context as to why syntax isn't important for pony, was actually harmful, rather than useful.