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I backed out your change to the Pascal and C comparision page. Because Wikipedia does not allow but a short description to the change, I have listed my reasons here.

First, I didn't see anything wrong with the original description. It was short, and accurate.

Second, your characterization of semicolon "as a statement itself" is simply wrong. the statement

if (1) {

  printf("start");
  ;

}

is not semicolon as a statement, it is the empty statement, followed by a semicolon. Please read the relevant standard for ANSI C.

Third, it contains unecessary verbage completely besides the point at hand. Example:

 "Note, that Compound statement is achieved by curly braces (used in set theory)"

The compound statement is covered elsewhere in the document, and need not be repeated here. Further, the fact that such brackets are used in set theory has absolutely nothing to do with either Pascal or C, or this article.

Forth, the Pascal examples are littered with errors:

program someName;

begin
   if(1) 
   ;
   else { there can never be a semicolon directly before "else"  }
   begin
       writeln { this is also last statement from a list consisting of just one statement  }
   end
end.

There is no program header (which is required by the writeln), and "if(1)" isn't Pascal, it's C. I think you were going for:

program someName(output);

begin
   if true then
   ;
   else { there can never be a semicolon directly before "else"  }
   begin
       writeln { this is also last statement from a list consisting of just one statement  }
   end
end.

[edit] quaternions

Why don't you explain us what you know about the quaternions technique used for the Tomb Raider game camera! Tudor Tuloc (talk) 12:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)