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Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
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On Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:27:45 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov  wrote:
> 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!
>  
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

They should be reserved for use in the exception handler.