Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[AJ]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
>>     And what about the spaces version? After all, nobody suggested 
>> removing *all* separation between statements like you did, just 
>> *redundant* separation.
>
> The spaces and punctuation were quite redundant in the message. I doubt it 
> would be difficult to write a program that would take that and insert all 
> the spaces and punctuation.
>
> I'm not much of a written language historian, but paragraphs, spaces, 
> punctuation, and case were all invented to improve readability. Very old 
> written languages have none of them, they're just a wall of letters.
>
> Punctuation and whitespace are in programming languages to improve 
> readability and reduce errors (some of these choices make the languages 
> harder to parse, but are worthwhile because they make it easier for humans 
> to parse).

Which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with semicolons at the end of 
a line of program code.