Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 18 November 2014 at 23:48:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/18/2014 1:23 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
> <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
>> I am arguing against the position that it was a design mistake 
>> to keep the
>> semantic model simple and with few presumptions. On the 
>> contrary, it was the
>> design goal. Another goal for a language like C is ease of 
>> implementation so
>> that you can easily port it to new hardware.
>
> The proposals I made do not change that in any way, and if K&R 
> designed C without those mistakes, it would have not made C 
> more complex in the slightest.
>
>
>> VLAs have been available in gcc for a long time. They are not 
>> useless, I've used
>> them from time to time.
>
> I know you're simply being argumentative when you defend VLAs, 
> a complex and useless feature, and denigrate simple ptr/length 
> pairs as complicated.

Argumentative ?!! More like a fucking gaping fucking asshole. His
posts are the blight of this group.