> From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b> > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:35:46 -0700 > > But they still hate semicolons, just as they did 50 years ago. It was only a few years ago that I quoted your quoting of Alan Perlis ("Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon") to my co-workers. Of course, nobody had heard this quote and nobody had thought that there was anything wrong with semicolons. It makes me wonder how anyone comes to question anything, let alone question assumptions.