The autocompletion features in advanced IDEs are huge productivity improvements, but not so much because they reduce keystrokes (they *certainly* don't increase typing speed, since it's hard to touch-type through the autocompletion interface) but because they reduce errors in entry.
Hence, I don't think that autocompletion and other context-sensitive features in IDE argue for keeping language features terse.
{
code here
}
is nice because it breaks up text code with punctuation, but not if your code also looks like punctuation.
if
code here
endif
is nice because it links the closure to the beginning of the block (and less ambiguously then a generic "}" or "end").
In both cases, indentation would help.
Hence, I don't think that autocompletion and other context-sensitive features in IDE argue for keeping language features terse.
{
code here
}
is nice because it breaks up text code with punctuation, but not if your code also looks like punctuation.
if
code here
endif
is nice because it links the closure to the beginning of the block (and less ambiguously then a generic "}" or "end").
In both cases, indentation would help.