[Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

[Lennart Augustsson]

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 at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 05:45 , Ketil Malde wrote:
>>
>> "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.  :-)
>
> 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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