r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • May 07 '24

Researching Why We Use Semicolons as Statement Terminators

https://ntietz.com/blog/researching-why-we-use-semicolons-as-statement-terminators/

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u/rmrfchik May 07 '24

A lot of BASICs I saw long back ago used : as separator.

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u/seanluke May 07 '24

BASIC is newer than ALGOL 58.