Jeff Nowakowski Wrote: > On 11/12/2010 11:29 AM, Sean Kelly wrote: > > To me, what they're saying is that their syntax is broken and so it > > forces a convention upon the users to deal with the issue. I know > > this is just a bike shed issue, but seeing something like this in the > > beginning of the tutorial makes it difficult for me to take them > > seriously. > > Yes, semicolons are a bike shed issue, and dismissing the whole language > because of that is petty. Walter has made a point in the past about > people who will look for one reason to dismiss something.
I haven't dismissed Go because it clearly has done a lot of things right. But stumbling across something like this in my first 5 minutes with the language doesn't instill a lot of confidence.
