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Re:No Semicolons Needed by vincent-manis on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:44PM (#47446691)
C was following PL/I.
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Re:No Semicolons Needed by DaleBiagio on Friday March 20, 2026 @05:22AM (#47452288)
Good catch, PL/I got there first. The lineage is ALGOL (separators) → PL/I (terminators) → C (terminators).

C gets the credit because it won the adoption war, but the decision was IBM's before it was Ritchie's.

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