Please don’t resort to blatant ad-hominem misquoting. My remarks were not as stupid as “hurr” and “tghaaaasdfsdgsg”, they were statements that I put much though

Please don’t resort to blatant ad-hominem misquoting. My remarks were not as stupid as “hurr” and “tghaaaasdfsdgsg”, they were statements that I put much thought behind. And rather than saying my thoughts were vacuous (mindless, meaningless), since you admit you prefer significant whitespace too, the worst you could call them is irrelevant. As for why I decided to bring the syntax up when semantics are more important, it seems to me that if a language designer hasn’t thought about the syntax of a language and has just copied verbatim the syntax of Java/C, then they show a lack of attention to detail, and there is a greater probability that they will continue to show this lack of attention to detail when designing the rest of the language. Yes, I could read the whole semantics section of the language spec and evaluate it directly, but that takes more time than some people have when faced with yet another unproven language to consider learning or watching. I’m sure more people than me use syntax as a warning sign, so the syntax of a language is important if the designer doesn’t want to scare these people off.