Why semicolons are lovely and colons less so

I work as a mainframe operator (colloquially known as a “computer operator”). I’m also equally good at what I do. Yes, I know all sorts of cheats and commands and such.

But I haven’t memorized everything. My point is when you’re trying to use symbols, in Windows you can pin Character Map to the taskbar (Launch Bar for you), so you can get to it easily.

Again, I have no quarrel with you, but it seems people act as if this is some mystery, with Alt codes and such. And there’s a GUI tool for that.