OT: Punctuation-starved Programming Languages

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Joost van de Griek wrote:
> On 6/22/06 3:49 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
>> I thought the SQL ; was implementation-specific, and just happened to be
>> used in many implementations?
> 
> True. It is also not consistent across implementations: in DB2-SQL, it is
> used merely to separate statements and optional at the end of single
> statement, while in NonStop-SQL it is mandatory to end each statement with a
> semicolon. Unclosed statements are interpreted as incomplete.

Most of my experience is with Oracle, which does it in the latter fashion.

Peace...  Sridhar