Interesting, I haven’t come across the paragraph part before. I think the period at end of message went away mostly because it is redundant. Once you hit enter, the message is finished and this is very easy to see in the user interfaces of today. So you save some keystrokes which can be nice especially when you’re sending multiple messages in quick succession.
I suppose a similar argument could be made for paragraphs: the end of the paragraph is already clear from the vertical spacing, a final period doesn’t add anything functionally.
Interesting, I haven’t come across the paragraph part before. I think the period at end of message went away mostly because it is redundant. Once you hit enter, the message is finished and this is very easy to see in the user interfaces of today. So you save some keystrokes which can be nice especially when you’re sending multiple messages in quick succession.
I suppose a similar argument could be made for paragraphs: the end of the paragraph is already clear from the vertical spacing, a final period doesn’t add anything functionally.