PL/I has keywords, they're just not reserved words. With as many keywords as PL/I has, there something to say for not making them reserved. :)
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 13, 2010, at 05:45 , Ketil Malde wrote: >> >> "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>> If we're going to go that far, FORTRAN and PL/1 have none. FORTRAN is >>> somewhat infamous for this: >> >> There's also the option (perhaps this was PL/1?) of writing constructs >> like: IF THEN THEN IF ELSE THEN etc. Having few reserved words isn't >> necessarily a benefit. :-) > > That'd be PL/I, and a prime example of why languages use keywords these days > (as if FORTRAN weren't enough). :) > > -- > brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected] > system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] > electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
