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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>Brendan Eich still thinks today that this was a good idea.
>
>   (automatic semicolon insertion)
>
>       »But insisting on Java's class and type declarations, or
>       on a semicolon after each statement when a line ending
>       would do, was out of the question - scripting for most
>       people is about writing short snippets of code, quickly
>       and without fuss«
>
>     Brendan Eich, 2001

I'm sure you are right, but the quote does not support the claim.  It's
in the past tense so in 2001 he thought it *was* the right thing to do.
It's also a rather old quote in that the rules have since got more
complicated.  One can imagine (note: only imagine -- I doubt this is his
opinion at all) an update to that quote:

  "scripting ... is about writing short snippets of code, quickly and
  without fuss" <fake quote:> and the syntax that has since been added
  means that writing scripts without fuss is now much easier with
  explicit semicolons.

-- 
Ben.