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That's a stupid question to ask. More appropriate would be: who on earth thinks that omitting semi-colons makes anything better?

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Yukihiro Matsumoto and Guido van Rossum come to mind.

It's pretty obvious from the context that the OP was referring to omitting semicolons in Javascript, not in other languages.

Yes it is. My point is that when those guys created their respective languages, they omitted semicolons. One would surmise that they thought it made things better.

This discussion is explicitly about javascript. How javascript benefits from including or excluding semicolons.

Also apparently Brendan Eich, since he included the feature in the language, continues to speak of it without shame and has used it on his blog as an example of what he'd like to see code look like (with the comment that "JSLint can suck it").

I do. And it works both ways:

"That's a stupid question to ask. More appropriate would be: who on earth thinks that omitting semi-colons makes anything worse?"

I have habit to place something at the end of sentence _._ I learned that in school _._

A newline is a perfectly good terminator. It's plainly visible to humans and as for JS itself it conforms to the spec.

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