I find nothing wrong with the classical syntax, but there is a very practical, even stupid reason why the syntax is the way it is now. As you can see from the tutorial (https://nbviewer.org/github/cozodb/cozo-docs/blob/main/tutor...), you can run Cozo in Jupyter notebooks and mix it with Python code. This is the main way that I myself interact with Cozo. Since I don't fancy writing an unmaintainable mess of Jupyter frontend code that may become obsolete in a few years, CozoScript had better look like python enough so as not to completely baffle the Jupyter syntax highlighter. That's why the syntax for comments is `#`, not `//`. That's also why the syntax for stored relation is `*stored`, not `&stored` or `%stored`.

This is a hack from the beginning, but over time I grew to like the syntax quite a bit. And hopefully by being similar to Python or JS superficially, fewer confusion results for new users :)