4 ms·I feel like programmers use semi-colons more often; we're more familiar with them.by RobotToaster 10mo agoI feel like programmers use semi-colons more often; we're more familiar with them.macintux 10mo agoErlang (and probably Prolog, but my memories there are fuzzy) use periods, commas, and semi-colons in a directly analogous way to English.amitav1 10mo agoI wonder if there are languages of programming that use em-dashes?macintux 10mo agoAPL seemed the likeliest candidate, but no such luck.wdporter 10mo agotrue, perhaps, but a colon would have been more appropriate here and programmers should be familiar enough with them also.