"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:hbqkoo$28p...@digitalmars.com... > 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.
