Semicolon: A language of semicolons

While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started and it's even sillier now.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by songrabbit » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 6:30 PM UTC

ghostfish wrote: post #4

While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started and it's even sillier now.

I think we can give the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume that this language was created as a parody of these debates.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by rmcclellan » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 6:35 PM UTC

Seems like a nice companion to Whitespace:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by themstheones » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 6:36 PM UTC

ghostfish wrote: post #4

While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started and it's even sillier now.

Sometimes the only way to escape is to go down into the crevasse.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by marknutter » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 6:39 PM UTC

And I thought Reddit had a problem with tired memes..

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by ChuckMcM » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 6:44 PM UTC

ghostfish wrote: post #4

While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started and it's even sillier now.

Which makes this idea rather snarky in my opinion. All the hating on Crockford who takes the time to sit on the committee rubs me a bit the wrong way. I've been where he is and seen the weird constraints/politics/effort it takes to do standards work, and so I respect that.

In any other context, building what is essentially a Turing machine with a few symbols, might qualify as a clever hack which helps folks step outside their ISO-latin1 mindset, but coming as it does on the heels of this controversy it just feels mean.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by Lapsa » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 6:47 PM UTC

songrabbit wrote: post #5

ghostfish wrote: post #4

While mildly amusing, this whole semicolon obsession that's sprung to the fore this past week is ridiculous. It was silly and inconsequential when it started and it's even sillier now.

I think we can give the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume that this language was created as a parody of these debates.

most of these debates consists of parody. trolls trolling trolls.