Infocom on PDP-11

[der Mouse]

> No -- neither in Pascal nor in Algol do statements end in semicolon.
> Instead, statements are SEPARATED by semicolons.  An important
> difference, which PL/1 and C both got wrong, in different ways.

How did C get it wrong?  I think Pascal got it wrong and C got it
right, because C did it much more the way humans tend to think of it
(and that, after all, is really what a programming language is all
about: communicating from a human to a computer.)

Of course, in C, semicolons don't terminate statements.  They terminate
*some* statements - specifically, expression statements.  (Well, that's
the big one.  There are also null statements, the do-while,
break/continue/return, and (if you count them) declarations, and
semicolons occur embedded in a few places like the for statement.  And
I may have forgotten something.)

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