Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Max Samukha wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:21:25 +0200, bambo <ba at m.bo> wrote:
> 
>> Walter Bright schrieb:
>>> Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>>
>>> Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbolsmostcertainly
>>> doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus
>>> aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould
>>> putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext
>>> Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere
>>> youareSemicolonsarethesamething
>>>
>>> (Fixed that for you!)
>> Walter, what a remarkable proove the semicolon helps us all a lot!
>> You are sooooo BRIGHT! You are so creative and intelligent!
>>
>> I LOVE YOU!
> 
> This is one of Walter's proofs that don't prove anything. Spaces
> between words are *not redundant*.

In Chinese they are.

Andrei