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Yukihiro Matsumoto and Guido van Rossum come to mind.
by bluesnowmonkey 15y ago
Yukihiro Matsumoto and Guido van Rossum come to mind.
- daeken 15y agoIt's pretty obvious from the context that the OP was referring to omitting semicolons in Javascript, not in other languages.
- bluesnowmonkey 15y agoYes it is. My point is that when those guys created their respective languages, they omitted semicolons. One would surmise that they thought it made things better.
- burgerbrain 15y agoThis discussion is explicitly about javascript. How javascript benefits from including or excluding semicolons.
- chc 15y agoAlso apparently Brendan Eich, since he included the feature in the language, continues to speak of it without shame and has used it on his blog as an example of what he'd like to see code look like (with the comment that "JSLint can suck it").