Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[grauzone]

language_fan wrote:
> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:29:37 -0400, bearophile thusly wrote:
> 
>>> Why not eliminate the requirement for semicolon statement terminators
>>> (unless there are multiple statements per line)?<
>> Probably mostly because both some part of D language, some part of the
>> mind of D developers, and some of the D programmers are "old school" and
>> like to do things as they were in the past. I can list you twenty
>> examples of this. Breaking old habits is not easy.
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> Adam D. Ruppe:
>>
>>> It looks wrong,
>> To me semicolons everywhere look wrong, even if I've programmed enough
>> with languages that require a semicolon at the ends.
>>
>>
>>> breaks habit,
>> It breaks a negative habit.
>>
>>
>>> opens up bizarre parsing corner cases, and makes error messages uglier.
>> I have yet to see a proof of this.
>>
>>
>>> Next thing you know someone will propose eliminating braces and just
>>> using whitespace to denote blocks. It's utter madness.
>> Even "worse", someone may even implement such alternative D syntax, and
>> the sky will fall on your head: http://delight.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Relax, bearophile. It seems there are some things you cannot change in 
> this world. It will not suffice that you prove them wrong. I think I'll 
> just give up on D. The development model is too stagnant. The author 

It was always so slow. D is how old? 10 years now?

> refuses to learn from "new" languages like Python or C#, or old languages 
> (SML) unless someone is kind enough to spend whole day explaining the 
> features to him. That's a sick basis for developing new languages. Large 
> part of the community shares this mindset. The more I think about it, the 
> more I realize this language is not for me. I apologize my arrogance. Bye.

What language is "for you"?