Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:54:35 -0500, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: > On 11/12/2010 11:29 AM, Sean Kelly wrote: >> To me, what they're saying is that their syntax is broken and so it >> forces a convention upon the users to deal with the issue. I know this >> is just a bike shed issue, but seeing something like this in the >> beginning of the tutorial makes it difficult for me to take them >> seriously. > > Yes, semicolons are a bike shed issue, and dismissing the whole language > because of that is petty. Walter has made a point in the past about > people who will look for one reason to dismiss something.
That argument of course only applies when looking at D. Walter thinks all other competitive languages are pure shit.