Why do some languages not use semicolons and braces?

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Published on 2010-05-17T10:50:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 13:20 UTC
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It is interesting that some languages do not use semicolons and braces, even though their predecessors had them. Personally, it makes me nervous to write code in Python because of this. Semicolons are also missing from Google's GO language, although the lexer uses a rule to insert semicolons automatically as it scans.

Why do some languages not use semicolons and braces?

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