The only point that that article makes that supports this point appears to be "semicolons in the syntax of a language can improve error messages". I don't think

The only point that that article makes that supports this point appears to be "semicolons in the syntax of a language can improve error messages". I don't think that that generalizes, especially because the topic of this comment thread is about C, which already has semicolons, and compilers explaining semantic problems to developers, as opposed to syntactic problems.