dive into mark

Joel Spolsky: I have lots of opinions as to what makes a “good” syntax. But I wouldn’t accept a 20 MB runtime just to get semicolons.

Later: wow, look what I stepped into. I rarely comment on .NET, since I know virtually nothing about it. I’m bowing out of this debate right now before I get nicked in the crossfire.

Next day: don’t miss these follow-ups:

• Joel: Why Religious Wars are Stupid
• Joe Gregorio: I want my squiggly braces
• Joel again: Five Worlds
• Sam Ruby: The languages are just syntactic sugar
• discussion on Lambda the Ultimate
• discussion on fog creek forum

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