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It seems there is as much to unlearn from the great writers as there is to learn. James Joyce disliked the quotation mark, and opted for dashes instead. e. e. cummings disliked capital letters and printed everything in lower case. Emily Dickinson used an abundance of dashes. George Bernard Shaw used an abundance of colons; Virginia Woolf, an abundance of semicolons. Melville used semicolons questionably. Gertrude Stein and Cormac McCarthy avoided comas. And in Shakespeare anything went.

"The Art of Punktuation" by Noah Lukeman

Замечательная книга. Наконец-то понял секрет английской пунктуации: ставь что хочешь и где хочешь, бери пример с великих.

Let's look at some examples from literature. George Bernard Shaw was famous for his use of colon. He relied on it heavily. Many of his usages are questionable -- in fact, overall, I don't think he used it well.

Многие недаразумения IT индустрии, в частности существование Lisp и Python, становятся понятными.