When to Use Semicolons in Computer Programming

In computer programming, the semicolon is often used in imperative programming languages to separate multiple statements (for example, Pascal and JavaScript). In other procedural programming languages semicolons are required after every statement (such as in PHP, Java, and the C family). Other languages, for example some assembly languages and LISP dialects, may use semicolons to mark the beginning of comments. In computer systems, the semicolon is represented by Unicode and ASCII character 59, or 0x003B.

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