>So is all opinionated design "stupid"?

He never said that.

>I do not presume to know who you are, or what you have accomplished, but there are few people with the professional and academic background that qualify to be able to call Douglas Crockford "stupid".

Why, who do you think Douglas Crockford is and what is his "academic background"? He doesn't even have a related degree. Most of his JS fame he ows to his book.

Since I too lack the lofty requisite background for it, I'll just let Mr. Crockford do the job the for me:

> The reason to use semicolons is because coding rigor tends to produce significantly better software.

Don't put words in my mouth, I didn't claim he was "stupid." To say that one thing he said somewhere is stupidity is a far cry from claiming he is stupid.

I also never said that "opinionated design is stupid".

Perhaps you could rephrase your question in such a way that you aren't presuming to speak for me.