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		netmare on April 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The origin and virtues of semicolons in programmin... And that the semicolon was used as a PRINT statement terminator when you wanted to suppress the implicit newline at the end.

teo_zero on April 16, 2024 [–]

Right! But it was more than that: it was the separator between data you wanted to print without any blank in-between, as opposed to the comma that would add a Tab.

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