[mst]

> For many people, semicolons represent the distinction between an old and crusty language and a modern one, in which case the semicolon serves a function similar to the use of Comic Sans by the OpenBSD project.

That's a delightful sentence, and in context of how the design makes opinionated choices based on its goals entirely reasonable.

(I don't know if I'll agree with all of those choices after I've thought about them sufficiently to be comfortable having an opinion, but I do very much appreciate that they're explicit, deliberate, and explained)