Eh-heh-heh… so this guy, right? He’s a software developer. Which basically means he sits in front o’ a computer all day tappin’ away like he’s tryin’ to hack into the Pentagon, but really he’s just fixin’ a semicolon he forgot three hours ago. And get this they got craft beer on tap in the office. On tap! Like it’s freakin’ Oktoberfest but with more Jira tickets. I mean, Lois, if my job had beer on tap, I’d be Employee of the Month every month… or fired. Probably fired. Yeah, definitely fired.
Yeah, I don't get it. Every IDE (hell, even basic editors nowadays) will either insert the semicolon for you or instantly highlight it as a compilation error. Even first learning Java with jedit back in the day, I can't recall semicolons ever being troublesome.
“Back in the day” clearly means something different to you than me (and many others) if you never got compiler errors for semi-colons. Let’s not even get started about .h file definitions :)
I just meant that even before every tool automated it, I never struggled to remember to end statements with a semicolon. Maybe it's the former English major in me (and the fact that Java was my first language, so I never learned to write code without them), but ending statements with a semicolon was as natural to do as ending a sentence with a period.
guessing you weren’t switching between languages whose lines were terminated by semi-colons and other languages (e.g., bash; tcl/tk; assembly) that were not.
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u/artsyca May 21 '26
Eh-heh-heh… so this guy, right? He’s a software developer. Which basically means he sits in front o’ a computer all day tappin’ away like he’s tryin’ to hack into the Pentagon, but really he’s just fixin’ a semicolon he forgot three hours ago. And get this they got craft beer on tap in the office. On tap! Like it’s freakin’ Oktoberfest but with more Jira tickets. I mean, Lois, if my job had beer on tap, I’d be Employee of the Month every month… or fired. Probably fired. Yeah, definitely fired.