Notes from the biomass

Even amongst programmers, the semicolon has a hard time. Newer languages in the C-tree such as Python and Ruby have no use for it and mirror its unfortunate demise in the literature and journalism. Its wikipedia entry is already shorter than the ampersand’s if you need hard evidence.
I like the semicolon; when I started writing papers, I tried to squeeze at least one in every piece of work. The few that survived the review of my peers were usually removed by the editors of the journals. I almost forgot about it and was touched when I discovered it again brushing up my touch typing skills (lower row, middle finger on a German keyboard).
Now, the NYT reports the re-emergence of the written-off punctuation mark in the subway. There is hope and nothing will hold me back to inflict it on my readership. Brace for impact!