Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[Walter Bright]

Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbolsmostcertainly
doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus
aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould
putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext
Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere
youareSemicolonsarethesamething

(Fixed that for you!)