Infocom on PDP-11

[Cameron Kaiser]

> The Algol/Pascal rule is very simple: semicolons between statements.
> Since Algol at least has null statements, if you throw in an extra one
> it doesn't hurt, but that's the rule and it works very well.
> 
> Thus the program that Cameron quoted as
>  begin;
> 	writeln('You had best not be dissing Pascal, boy');
>  end.
> 
> should be written without either of the semicolons.

Why? (Unless you're talking about Algol.)

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