From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:27:45 +0200
Date: 2012-04-15T14:27:45+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1nx9eozeu6eki$.1pc7cnjtfw31w.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jme7r1$eo7$1@speranza.aioe.org
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:27:36 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> "The lack of reserved words in the language gives the
> programmer complete freedom to choose identifiers."
>
> The above was listed under the header of what makes this
> language easy, robust and well defined! (I am not
> going to name the language).
>
> Now, I found this to be so strange and really bizarre, as
> I would have thought it should be the other way round.
>
> Reserved words are a good thing. Having an
> identifier be called 'if' or 'then' or 'which' is
> supposed to be good as it gives the programmer the freedom
> to choose the name of the variables?
Yes, or take defamatory words. What kind of identifiers they would be?
Clearly words like sh*t, f*ck etc must be reserved!
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2012-04-15 10:27 [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-04-15 11:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-04-16 10:37 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-04-15 12:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-04-17 6:59 ` tonyg
2012-04-17 7:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-15 14:05 ` Bill Findlay
2012-04-15 14:21 ` Pascal Obry
2012-04-15 14:54 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-15 15:34 ` Pascal Obry
2012-04-17 5:42 ` Brad Moore
2012-04-17 16:11 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 16:33 ` Robert A Duff
2012-04-17 19:34 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 21:42 ` Robert A Duff
2012-04-17 22:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-18 7:00 ` stefan-lucks
2012-04-17 21:17 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-04-15 23:53 ` Brian Drummond
2012-04-16 10:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2012-04-16 11:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 13:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 15:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 15:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 17:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 17:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 18:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 21:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 3:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-17 4:43 ` Bill Findlay
2012-04-17 7:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 22:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-18 7:10 ` stefan-lucks
2012-04-18 23:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-19 14:22 ` Shark8
2012-04-17 15:48 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 16:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 19:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 16:01 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 17:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 19:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 3:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-17 3:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-16 19:55 ` sbelmont700
2012-04-17 0:48 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-04-17 21:59 ` anon
2012-05-13 4:14 ` David Thompson
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