Made me think of Gene Wolfe (an engineer and later editor for Plant Engineering magazine) and Orson Scott Card, who continued to write for Compute! even after E

Made me think of Gene Wolfe (an engineer and later editor for Plant Engineering magazine) and Orson Scott Card, who continued to write for Compute! even after Ender's Game became popular (see https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/index/index.php?author=Orson+Scott+Card https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/index/index.php?autho...) Regarding "McCarthy's vendetta against semicolons" (@metaxy2) there are a number of high profile writers who are very particular about grammar. Example: Stephen King's On Writing shared some opinions about adverbs: “I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one in your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day…fifty the day after that…and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it’s—GASP!!—too late.”