[olavgg]

Any language today that still requires to mark end of line with a semi colon, has in my opinion outdated syntax. Most people put one statement per line, so why is it required and not optional?

[katbyte]

just guessing but if all statements are terminated with a ; instead of a newline it allows statements to be split up into multiple lines?

[devdas]

What about the counter case of one statement needing more than one line?

[hhw]

1) Line length is arbitrary, and there is no finite limit 2) You can have an escape sequence for a new line

With that said, I disagree that having to mark the end of a statement with a semi-colon is obsolete syntax. Statements and lines should not have to be 1-to-1, even if most code is written as such.