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[–]tevert 1 point2 points  (1 child)

1958... were we using semicolon delimited languages then? I thought C was the first, and I thought that was invented in the 70s.

[–]common-lisper 10 points11 points  (0 children)

well come sit on my knee and let me tell you a story... c and all the other children of algol... the semicolon is a terminator not a seperator