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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:27:36 -0500
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I thought some here might enjoy this, since I know Ada
folks are more "software engineering" aware than the
average on the net ;)

Here is what I read:

"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?

I am sometimes just amazed at what I read on the net
about what makes a language good. But this one tops
the list.

--Nasser