[Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jan 12, 2010, at 17:38 , Michael Hartl wrote:
>> Also, the number varies depending on whether you consider "reversed
>> words" or "keywords", and I suspect the situation is subtly different
>
> "reversed words"? There are some in sh for example, namely 'fi' and
> 'esac', but other than that they are not that common... ;-)


Algol used them; the Bourne shell picked them up from Algol 60. </ 
pointless-geekery>

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