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jpr on Oct 6, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Actual drawbacks to omitting semi-colons?

Sometimes I wonder how many gigabytes of flamewars about "coding style" C-like syntax has caused.

Roboprog on Oct 6, 2010 [–]

Indeed. Something to be said for line oriented languages like Ruby, Python, shell-script, xBASE, BASIC (I said that?!?), et al.

This is how it is, now use your time to understand the bigger structure, not punctuation.

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