The Semicolon: Optional In English, Mandatory In Code

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The Semicolon: Optional In English, Mandatory In Code
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The semicolon - utterly insignificant in English class but the holy grail of syntax in programming. While your English teacher casually dismisses it, CS students are having existential crises over missing semicolons that break entire codebases. Nothing quite matches the sheer panic of debugging for hours only to discover you forgot a single semicolon on line 347. The compiler doesn't care about your feelings; it just wants its precious punctuation.

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