Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[Walter Bright]

Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> 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;

I can read the ; version several times faster than the first.