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>Rob Pike famously explained that C needed its space-insensitive braces and semicolons in case code was transmitted through a channel that mangled whitespace.

But did he explain why it used semicolons, rather than periods, which would make more sense because a statement is basically a sentence?

parent xigoi 4 years ago

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