To be accurate, Pyret is a collaboration (primarily) with Joe Politz and Ben Lerner and they deserve most of the credit for it.

Interesting in what sense? Language outline at https://www.pyret.org/docs/latest/A_Tour_of_Pyret.html

one of the best thought-out syntaxes i have seen in a programming language, for one.

Ok maybe I'm a weird type, but I got really excited when the first thing they teach you is how to write a test/assertion.

I thought you were talking about this one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...