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=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!JUN8/iIzeA71QWaIWFKODA.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Luke A. Guest" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Proliferation of Reserved Words Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 12:48:33 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: JUN8/iIzeA71QWaIWFKODA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-GB Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62077 List-Id: On 31/05/2021 21:51, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: > Ada 83 (in)famously had 63 reserved words, which was considered a lot at > the time (languages like C and Pascal had about half that). Considering > only those related to tasking, there were 7: > > abort accept do entry select task terminate I think you're about 40 years too late to complain now :P Luke.