Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[Walter Bright]

AJ wrote:
> Walter, do you write at all? If so, why not take a breather and write an 
> article about this, given that you have direct experience in addition to 
> opinion on the topic? :)

I write an awful lot - blogs, documentation, articles, presentations, 
etc. The ; debate, though, is a very old and tired one, and makes me 
tired just thinking about it :-) So many much more interesting things to 
write about.

Bottom line: yes, there is a case both ways. Nobody will be convinced to 
change sides. Both can be made to work. There's nothing new to say about it.