Why sem·i·co·lon?

Why ; out of approximately 80 buttons on my keyboard?
I can easily survive without P or L or any other letter.
I can easily name something myCurrentKocation instead of myCurrentLocation.
Won't make Apple happy but will be hard to understand if code gets stolen.
But semicolon... I cannot survive without it. Almost all the programming languages I use require it at the end of each line, and auto-complete does not help.

At least I know she was flying South.