[Arrgh]

> I like being a pedantic programmer.

Try Scala! (So do I ;)

[lanstein]

shouldn't that be

Try Scala! (So do I ;))

then?

[qntm]

Just backslash-escape the internal right-paren.

   (So do I ;\))

[vog]

Indeed!

BTW, this issue with emoticons and parenthesis was also subject of an XKCD comic: http://www.xkcd.com/541/