From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 14 Apr 93 21:00:49 GMT From: alex@MIMSY.CS.UMD.EDU (Alex Blakemore) Subject: Re: Ichbiah's Letter Message-ID: <66463@mimsy.umd.edu> List-Id: In article <1993Apr14.091604.389@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: > Consider, for example, that Ada 9X adds many new reserved words to the langua ge. just so no one takes this out of context, Ada9X adds only five keywords: aliased protected tagged requeue until to the original 63 for a total of 68 keywords that's less than an 8% increase in keywords in 10 years. (or less that 1% per year :-) still far from COBOL's league. did C++ add new keywords to C? -- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- "Without an engaged and motivated human being at the keyboard, the computer is just another dumb box." William Raspberry