On 2015-01-28 at 23:27, Walter Bright wrote:
Good language design has redundancy in it. Often people see the redundancy, and advocate removing it as noise. But the redundancy has a valuable purpose - diagnosing of errors, and offering suggestions for fixing the errors. If there was no redundancy in the language, every random sequence of bytes would be a valid program.
I'm quite sure I have read this very same thing not so long ago. :)
