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This is reminiscent of those occasional attempts to "fix" Lisp's parentheses. In practise, I've never found JavaScript's braces and semicolons distracting. I just don't notice them that much.

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JavaScript has been fixed, and its new name is jQuery.

jQuery only attempts to deal with the DOM. Confusing a browser API and a programming language is a mistake to be avoided.

Broadly speaking, I honestly agree with this.

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