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From: phipps@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Algol-Style vs C-Style Semicolons
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Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 14:25:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 14:25:46 1984
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For one reference, see

    John D. Gannon and J. J. Horning:
    "Language Design For Programming Reliability",
    *IEEE Transactions On Software Engineering*, vol. SE-1, num. 2, June 1975,
    p. 179 .. 191.

The difference in the semicolon errors is "an order of magnitude",
in favor of PL/I-style (C-style for C chauvinists who don't know that PL/I
did it earlier) semicolon usage, as stated on page 189 of this paper.

The paper discusses issues more meaty than semicolon placement, by the way.

-- Clay Phipps

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