I'm wondering about a scala-like language that supports infix operators (i.e. allows one to write "object1 method object2" where Java would require "object1.method(object2)"), but requires all methods to be purely alphabetic, even e.g. "plus". I think writing BigInteger arithmetic as "(a plus b) times c" would still be fairly readable, and current scala goes too far in the other direction (e.g. the main scala HTTP library requires a "periodic table" to tell you which random two-special-character combination does what).