User blog comment:Vince Jan Torres/Source code of level pages/@comment-5665767-20140105115135/@comment-4189499-20140105122255

Agreed with the removal of the "and" from both a lengthy and grammatical perspective. A semi-colon is not followed by and "and" since it connects either two complete or one incomplete and one complete idea, and it's even a sketchy practice to do following a comma.