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>always write one statement per line as a matter of convention
>still need to put a semicolon at the end of the line
>it's 2012 and everyone has baby duck syndrome about a shitty hack meant to help parsers from the 1960s

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Care to elaborate why would the syntax, of all things, be so important?
because....it is....I dont know how else to say it. The syntax should convey the style of programming youre doing, C syntax has been adopted by most popular programming languages for its conciseness and clarity. Pascal syntax still has its place, its used in Ada. Using := assignment instead of = is clutter, assignment is the most common thing done in imperative programming. Putting the type after the identifier is clutter, the type should come first. It really suprises me that Ken Thompson would choose Pascal syntax over C syntax, he is making a big mistake here.