Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
I don't see on what basis you could disagree with that.
Reasons why I disagree:

I don't find it harder to type in a C-style grammar than an English-style one. Certainly, I don't produce anywhere near as many characters per second, but then again, it generally takes fewer characters to produce a particular meaning as it does in VB. Besides, do you really type code at breakneck pace? I spend most of my time thinking about what I'm trying to say, just as I do when typing English posts on a forum. In fact, the only time my typing speed reaches anywhere near my ability is when I'm simply transcribing prose... such as one does in a typing speed test.

As for the semicolon, I find it gives one a nice freedom to arrange single statements or expressions over multiple lines, as well as being elegantly analogous to punctuation in poetry. The line continuation character in VB is decidedly clumsy in comparison. It is possible to create a language that requires neither: its name is JScript, and after the second or third time finding a problem that mandatory semicolons would have highlighted instantly, it becomes rather tiresome.