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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by malandrew on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:06AM (#3842847)
Why?

This unfortunate behavior is well described by Wadler's Law:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wadlers_Law

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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by gfodor on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:22AM (#3842884)
This is great, thanks. The only logical conclusion is that engineers should be choosing tools that have the least syntactical surface area to argue over. :)
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by regularfry on Sunday April 15, 2012 @04:08AM (#3843123)
Whatever you do, don't go looking for the discussions that happened around scheme r6rs...
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by ExpiredLink on Sunday April 15, 2012 @05:37AM (#3843252)
Berners Lee's 'principle of least power'?
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by ricardobeat on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:33AM (#3842909)
Assembler? ;)
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by codeka on Sunday April 15, 2012 @07:48AM (#3843465)
Brainfk, clearly.
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by crystalis on Sunday April 15, 2012 @04:50AM (#3843173)
Few people truly understand the semantics of a language, but everyone knows why indexing from 1 is bad.
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by reinhardt on Sunday April 15, 2012 @05:52AM (#3843279)
... that is, for some values of "everyone" ;)
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by hellerbarde on Sunday April 15, 2012 @11:45AM (#3843893)
jep, see Eiffel. Convention is indexing from 1. (but it allows you to do it in whatever way you want, start from 3 if you want, because hey why not -.-)
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