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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: improve language by dropping ;
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.160112.7697@convex.com>
Date: 18 Feb 91 16:01:12 GMT
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From the keyboard of rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter):
:It is possible to design languages without separators; however it is
:almost universally agreed that the hair isn't worth it.  There is, however,
:a real split between languages which use end-of-line as a statement
:separator and those which use semicolon.  (Fortran vs Algol.)  

Or awk vs C.  Personally, I prefer the C method.  I don't like
having to escape my newlines at the end of the line if it's not
the end of the statement.  But yes, some people have different
tastes.  They're wrong. :-)

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
 "All things are possible, but not all expedient."  (in life, UNIX, and perl)