Re: Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

[Max Samukha via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 04:39:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

One of the things that comes with Haskell has nothing to do 
with functional programming. It's the minimalist syntax. 
However, I find that they've gone too far with this, and it's 
difficult for me to read. Haskell people, however, consider 
this 'clean'.

It is actually no harder to read after some practice than a 
language with C-like syntax. In general, the more languages you 
practice, the less important (and more annoying) syntax 
redundancies become.