[Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

Ketil Malde ketil at malde.org
Wed Jan 13 05:45:28 EST 2010


"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery at 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.  :-)

-k
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