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On 12/3/22 11:25 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> schrieb:

>> One feature that I find makes them easier to use, and harder to
>> implement, is no reserved words.
>
> I think this is more a matter of extensibility than of ease of use,
> but both are somewhat intertwined.
>
> Adding a new reserved word is a breaking change, especially if that
> word is often used.  See "new" in C++, which was something reasonable
> to use in C, and is reserved in C++.

IMO C basic syntax is a bad base. As long as declarations and
expressions can be distinguished only by the type of an identifier (type
name or variable name) it's not a good idea to add new keywords that can
be confused with variable or type names. Instead weird constructs like
"long long" for int64_t have been introduced, while "int int" stays
equivalent to "int".

DoDi

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  Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its use? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-12-02 02:09 -0800
  Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its use? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-12-03 10:25 +0000
    Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its use? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2022-12-03 22:16 +0100
      Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its use? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-12-06 09:56 -0800
        Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its use? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-12-06 12:43 -0800
          Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its use? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-12-07 10:14 +0000
        Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its use? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2022-12-07 12:13 +0100
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              Re: What attributes of a programming language simplify its use? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-12-08 14:44 -0800
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