> syntax is really easy to most programmers who is willing to learn
This is exactly how this sentence should look like, no need for any language at the beginning. While syntax does matter (and I only recently arrived at this conclusion) its "intuitiveness" or "similarity" is utterly unimportant. You either are a "real programmer" and have no problem picking up different syntaxes and semantics, or you're not. That's all there is to it.
It is important - we're not just robots doing work to eat and have where to live, we need to enjoy what we do and having pleasant syntax is what made many fall in love with Ruby. Let's not pretend syntax doesn't matter - it does, indeed, otherwise there wouldn't be Scala today either!
I agree, syntax does matter. A program should look good on the page. It's much more satisfying to write code in a language that you can craft in an eye-pleasing manner.
This is exactly how this sentence should look like, no need for any language at the beginning. While syntax does matter (and I only recently arrived at this conclusion) its "intuitiveness" or "similarity" is utterly unimportant. You either are a "real programmer" and have no problem picking up different syntaxes and semantics, or you're not. That's all there is to it.