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Re:Impressions of Go by TylerE on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @04:38PM (#6092738)
Not just aesthetics, it's also a matter of ergonomics. ; is not the most comfortable thing to type, requiring either wrist rotation or an awkwardly bent pinky.
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Re:Impressions of Go by marshray on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @08:12PM (#6093748)
That's odd, I consider ';' as one of the easiest things to type. What kind of keyboard are you on?

I'm a C++ developer and go so far as to make it harder. I map ; to <esc> in vim, and enter the actual char with a second ; (from from normal mode).

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Re:Impressions of Go by kluge on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @05:06AM (#6095129)
On the US keyboard it probably is. On Finnish keyboard it's where < is on the US one, i.e. Shift-comma.
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Re:Impressions of Go by marshray on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:12PM (#6098381)
Yeah, I always felt a tiny bit sorry for non-US developers, especially using languages like Perl that use $ all over the place.
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Re:Impressions of Go by shrughes on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @05:16PM (#6092951)
Dvorak does it better -- underscore is on the home row.
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