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Richard E Maine wrote:
> 
> And the possibility of specifying procedure arguments by keyword instead
> of just positionally. You find that in some scripting languages. And you
> find things like that in lots of other contexts, including the syntax
> typically used to invoke compilers. But in compiled languages, it seems
> like the feature is rare; it is shared by Fortran 90 and Ada, and then I
> start slowing down a lot in naming compiled languaages in widespread use
> that have it.

Visual Basic, which turned into a compiled language around version 4 or 
version 5.  Dunno how widespread the use is as a compiled language, vs. 
as a scripting language for Excel and Access, though.