Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons | Christian Heilmann | BraveNewTalent

18th April 2012 Rowan Manning in Javascript

Christian Heilmann talks absolute sense regarding the recent debate over semi-colons in JavaScript. Also, ommitting closing HTML tags and attribute quotes are covered - http://christianheilmann.com/2012/04/16/of-parser-fetishists-and-semi-colons/
- Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons | Christian Heilmann
  
  TL;DR: if you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon. We finally arrived at the official JavaScript drama with big players like Brendan Eich and Douglas Crockford involved in the discussion.
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- Tancredi Trugenberger
  Will this help stopping JS hipsters all across the world? Hope so..
  
  19th April 2012
  
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- Phil Booth
  He speaks a lot of sense. The key point being, good programmers write code to be understood by humans.
  
  19th April 2012
  
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