I think you took my comment as sarcasm, but I quite agree with you; being able to leave out the curly braces was a mistake in the language design. Not as big as

I think you took my comment as sarcasm, but I quite agree with you; being able to leave out the curly braces was a mistake in the language design. Not as big as some of the others, but costly enough over all these decades. Personally I prefer to be less strict about style whenever possible, but then I prefer to work in safer languages, and I don't have the same firehose to deal with.