Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

On Jan 13, 2010, at 05:45 , Ketil Malde wrote:

"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" writes:

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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] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH