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Garlef

Hmm... I don't know how serious this wants to be taken

- first example argues that syntax is interchangeable

- but then the author tries to sell me his semis

???

And who even cares in the time of LLMs and auto formatting?

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I was trying to be EXTREMELY clear I am talking specifically about DECLARATION syntax only and how for the most part, the concrete syntax for the DECLARTAION syntax is not that important in many languages.

However concrete syntax matters a heck of a lot and cannot be trivially interchangeable.

I had to write a follow-up article to clarify this because of people like yourself wrongly interpreting the article: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/02/21/does-syntax-ma...

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