They were frustrating in pascal because of its original ;-as-separator philosophy. Lightspeed/Think pascal would give you those errors and guide you to a compi

They were frustrating in pascal because of its original ;-as-separator philosophy. Lightspeed/Think pascal would give you those errors and guide you to a compilable program, but it was still too easy to make that mistake in the first place. On the other hand, a missing semicolon in Microsoft C would often give a litany of unrelated errors.