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 <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
On Jan 13, 2010, at 05:45 , Ketil Malde wrote:
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> 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). :)
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