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Post #57,782
by deSitter
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10/19/02 1:54:47 AM
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New The Galileo of Computing!
Sorry.

It's really funny to watch you have a stroke over a stupid delimiter. Maybe we should replace it by a new character just for you - the "catastrophe".
-drl
Post #58,195
by tablizer
10/22/02 2:32:44 AM
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New Others complain too
It's really funny to watch you have a stroke over a stupid delimiter.

That happens to be the topic at hand. If you have Bertrand Meyer's OOSC2 you will see that others have found it problematic also. Page 897 partial quote: "The War of the Semicolon [title]....Two clans inhabit the computer world, and the hatred between them is as ferocious as it is ancient...."

It is just one of those annoying things that keep slowing things down. I used Pascal extensively in College, and never did get used to semi's. Perhaps if *all* the langs I ever used only had semi's, then it would be a natural habit by now. However, I encounter a mix.

If one keeps losing their car keys once every 2 weeks, then a combination-based lock starts to look pretty good (like the Nissan Maxima).

BTW, some non-semi languages do NOT need VB-style dashes or continuation characters. Python and LISP come to mind.
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     Comments Invited on Adobe Javascript - (deSitter) - (40) - Oct. 1, 2002, 11:44:40 PM EDT
         Why can't they pick a better language? - (ben_tilly) - (37) - Oct. 2, 2002, 06:25:28 AM EDT
             I agree. - (static) - (4) - Oct. 2, 2002, 08:08:22 AM EDT
                 Re: I agree. - (deSitter) - (3) - Oct. 2, 2002, 09:48:51 AM EDT
                     Same language... - (ChrisR) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2002, 12:21:23 PM EDT
                         Re: Same language... - (deSitter) - Oct. 2, 2002, 12:44:40 PM EDT
                     I didn't look. - (static) - Oct. 2, 2002, 10:16:32 PM EDT
             You Perl people must like... - (ChrisR) - (31) - Oct. 2, 2002, 03:03:22 PM EDT
                 not new vernacular but sigil doesnt mean sigil anymore? - (boxley) - Oct. 2, 2002, 04:19:33 PM EDT
                 I didn't invent it - (ben_tilly) - (29) - Oct. 2, 2002, 07:03:51 PM EDT
                     Re: I didn't invent it - (deSitter) - (28) - Oct. 2, 2002, 07:37:42 PM EDT
                         It isn't, necessarily - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Oct. 2, 2002, 07:55:24 PM EDT
                             Re: It isn't, necessarily - (deSitter) - (3) - Oct. 2, 2002, 07:58:33 PM EDT
                                 Why is that wrong? - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 2, 2002, 08:03:32 PM EDT
                                 Not me - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Oct. 3, 2002, 08:37:49 AM EDT
                                     You've got life easy - (tonytib) - Oct. 5, 2002, 01:55:11 AM EDT
                         Not idiomatically. - (static) - (22) - Oct. 2, 2002, 10:19:07 PM EDT
                             In Perl they are dereferencing operators -NT - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 2, 2002, 10:26:22 PM EDT
                             semicolon rant IV - (tablizer) - (20) - Oct. 3, 2002, 01:43:33 AM EDT
                                 Or you can use periods. - (tuberculosis) - (19) - Oct. 3, 2002, 08:41:17 AM EDT
                                     re: periods - (tablizer) - (18) - Oct. 5, 2002, 12:40:32 AM EDT
                                         re: periods - (deSitter) - (17) - Oct. 6, 2002, 06:29:49 PM EDT
                                             Huh? -NT - (tablizer) - (16) - Oct. 8, 2002, 11:40:57 PM EDT
                                                 Re: Huh? - (deSitter) - (15) - Oct. 9, 2002, 11:59:35 AM EDT
                                                     Who is "everyone"? - (tablizer) - (5) - Oct. 17, 2002, 03:53:17 PM EDT
                                                         Once More With Feeling - (deSitter) - (4) - Oct. 17, 2002, 05:09:06 PM EDT
                                                             I don't care about the 1970's, I hate them here and now - (tablizer) - (3) - Oct. 18, 2002, 11:20:43 PM EDT
                                                                 Simple solution. - (static) - Oct. 19, 2002, 12:43:55 AM EDT
                                                                 The Galileo of Computing! - (deSitter) - (1) - Oct. 19, 2002, 01:54:47 AM EDT
                                                                     Others complain too - (tablizer) - Oct. 22, 2002, 02:32:44 AM EDT
                                                     Wrong. - (admin) - (2) - Oct. 17, 2002, 05:12:06 PM EDT
                                                         Re: Wrong. - (deSitter) - (1) - Oct. 17, 2002, 05:34:53 PM EDT
                                                             This is a general trend - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 18, 2002, 07:25:31 AM EDT
                                                     Historical trivia that applies... - (hnick) - (5) - Oct. 17, 2002, 05:41:27 PM EDT
                                                         Nah, not Kernighan and Ritchie. - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - Oct. 17, 2002, 09:59:49 PM EDT
                                                             Right, Not K&R - (hnick) - (3) - Oct. 18, 2002, 08:13:04 AM EDT
                                                                 Don't be. Sorry, I mean. -NT - (CRConrad) - Oct. 18, 2002, 08:30:21 AM EDT
                                                                 Re: Right, Not K&R - (deSitter) - Oct. 18, 2002, 12:37:33 PM EDT
                                                                 Actually, might it have been a "standard" to fit terminals? - (wharris2) - Oct. 21, 2002, 12:00:00 PM EDT
         Initial Comments - (ChrisR) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2002, 06:26:07 PM EDT
             Re: Initial Comments - (deSitter) - Oct. 7, 2002, 10:01:48 AM EDT

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