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"Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:9fa75d42.0304250937.36a7897e@posting.google.com...

> > Then you will be able to
> > make valid arguments on this.  E.g. how much of
> > the syntax of Java or VB the typical programmer
> > knows.
>
> I have work on projects in both VB and Java.  In both cases competent
> programmers only knew subsets of the language's syntax.  This subsetting
did
> not hamper the projects' success.

Just to take on the VB claim up there. How many
practicing VB programmers realise that this construct
(subject to typos and such) is a perfectly valid syntax:

select case true
case a = b
 ...
case a = c
 ...

[omittting the alphabet]

case a = z
...


It will even work if used.

>
> > but most of the syntax
> > is well understood by most programmers.

Is it?