The examples might not be 100% accurate, but my point is that if you know what you're doing, syntax shouldn't be too much of a problem. How long did it take you to see the differences between the two blocks of code? And notice how syntax is consistent across the language, so the differences between a language and another tend to be consistent also.

Not sure why you're even pointing any of this out because the things you pointed out are pretty much generic to all popular languages. A lot of them are concepts that came about from having to work with assembly and don't really say anything about the logic of a language.

Python and C++ might superficially seem similar, but they share as many similarities as cars and cows.

The examples might not be 100% accurate, but my point is that if you know what you're doing, syntax shouldn't be too much of a problem. How long did it take you to see the differences between the two blocks of code? And notice how syntax is consistent across the language, so the differences between a language and another tend to be consistent also.

Now do the same with Scheme, R, Erlang or even Mips Asm and then tell me they look similar. I get the point you are trying to make but you are over simplifying the issue.