Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbolsmostcertainly
> doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus
> aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould
> putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext
> Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere
> youareSemicolonsarethesamething

	And how it that any better:

If;the;point;isnt;plain;obvious;from;the;above;fewer;symbols;most;certainly;
does;NOT;mean;a;language;is;necessarily;easier;to;parse;Symbols;give;us;
a;parsing;anchor;periods;in;a;sentence;arent;strictly;necessary;we;could;
put;one;per;line;or;just;figure;out;where;they;belong;by;parsing;the;context;
But;thats;fairly;obviously;much;harder;than;using;periods;to;follow;where;
you;are;Semicolons;are;the;same;thing;

		Jerome
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