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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:27:45 +0200
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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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