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While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started a

While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started and it's even sillier now.

songrabbit 14y ago
I think we can give the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume that this language was created as a parody of these debates.
- Lapsa 14y ago
  most of these debates consists of parody. trolls trolling trolls.
  - dudeguy999 14y ago
    It's trolls all the way down.
themstheones 14y ago
Sometimes the only way to escape is to go down into the crevasse.
ChuckMcM 14y ago
Which makes this idea rather snarky in my opinion. All the hating on Crockford who takes the time to sit on the committee rubs me a bit the wrong way. I've been where he is and seen the weird constraints/politics/effort it takes to do standards work, and so I respect that. In any other context, building what is essentially a Turing machine with a few symbols, might qualify as a clever hack which helps folks step outside their ISO-latin1 mindset, but coming as it does on the heels of this controversy it just feels mean.
- primatology 14y ago
  Was there that much hating on Crockford? Most of the posts I saw were in support of his position, if not his (probably justified) grouchy attitude. I find it hard to disagree with him. Eichs has admitted ASI was a mistake, every half-decent JS tutorial states unequivocally "use semicolons"... if you don't want semi-colons, don't use JS. I find semicolon hilarious. We need to lighten up!
ktizo 14y ago
This is an official announcement. Please will everybody stop being silly. We all have serious businesses to run, enabling people to find video of cats wearing mittens, making photographs square, all important stuff. So stop having fun and get back to work, those augmented media experiences wont write themselves you know.

While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started and it's even sillier now.

songrabbit 14y ago

I think we can give the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume that this language was created as a parody of these debates.

Lapsa 14y ago
most of these debates consists of parody. trolls trolling trolls.
- dudeguy999 14y ago
  It's trolls all the way down.

themstheones 14y ago

Sometimes the only way to escape is to go down into the crevasse.

ChuckMcM 14y ago

Which makes this idea rather snarky in my opinion. All the hating on Crockford who takes the time to sit on the committee rubs me a bit the wrong way. I've been where he is and seen the weird constraints/politics/effort it takes to do standards work, and so I respect that. In any other context, building what is essentially a Turing machine with a few symbols, might qualify as a clever hack which helps folks step outside their ISO-latin1 mindset, but coming as it does on the heels of this controversy it just feels mean.

primatology 14y ago
Was there that much hating on Crockford? Most of the posts I saw were in support of his position, if not his (probably justified) grouchy attitude. I find it hard to disagree with him. Eichs has admitted ASI was a mistake, every half-decent JS tutorial states unequivocally "use semicolons"... if you don't want semi-colons, don't use JS. I find semicolon hilarious. We need to lighten up!

ktizo 14y ago

This is an official announcement. Please will everybody stop being silly. We all have serious businesses to run, enabling people to find video of cats wearing mittens, making photographs square, all important stuff. So stop having fun and get back to work, those augmented media experiences wont write themselves you know.