Commas are nice; they are not as nice as the king of punctuation, the semicolon. I love semicolons; I use too many of them in my writing. They can often be used where you would try to stick a comma, transforming a run on sentence into a grammatically correct, if somewhat ornate sounding sentence; I use them more than any other mark other than the period, I think.
Also I use them in most of my programming so that makes them even cooler.
If I use a semicolon, I know I'm out of control. :~)