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

[Max Samukha via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 04:39:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> 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'.

It is actually no harder to read after some practice than a 
language with C-like syntax. In general, the more languages you 
practice, the less important (and more annoying) syntax 
redundancies become.