conventions of old

>British vs American
No, I think it's more "Pascal vs C", although there are earlier languages that use that notation.

>>58120464
The British way is probably easier for someone who doesn't program to read; however, the american way looks much cleaner imo

>>58120464
I am British. Fuck the British way of doing anything.

>>58120464
>; to end lines of code
It's not like
A sentence,
Written on many lines,
Is supposed to end
Without dot,
You, dumb Simpsons mutant hand poster.

>>58120464
British have 2 faucets for hot and cold and 2 separate keyboards. One for capped letters. Fuck everything British.

>>58120535
Lemme elaborate on it then

This is the British way:

begin

if x = y then
dothis;
dothat;
andthis;
end;

dosomethingelse

end

--- so entire blocks need to be delimited with semicolons – but only delimited, so the last semicolon is optional. That is why the choice of character was a semicolon: it has the same function in English.

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>>58120544

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>>58120551

>>58120493
Pascal and C just became the most popular languages to come from the two types. The difference was sort of born from two different methods used in the two different countries