Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/2/2016 8:48 PM, Joe Duarte wrote:
> I'm a social scientist and I'm preparing some studies on the effects of
> programming language syntax on learning, motivation to pursue
> programming, as well as any disproportionate effects that PL syntax has
> on the appeal of programming to women (more on the latter in a separate
> post).

One of the things that comes with Haskell has nothing to do with 
functional programming. It's the minimalist syntax. However, I find that 
they've gone too far with this, and it's difficult for me to read. 
Haskell people, however, consider this 'clean'.