Andrew Coppin wrote: > OK people, it's random statistics time! > > Haskell '98 apparently features 25 reserved words. (Not counting > "forall" and "mdo" and so on, which AFAIK are not in Haskell '98.) So > how does that compare to other languages? > > C: 32 > C++: 62 > Borland Turbo Pascal: ~50 [without the OOP extensions added later] > Eiffel: 59 > VB: The source I checked listed in excess of 120 reserved words, but > I'm dubious as to how "reserved" they really are. (Is CInt really > reserved? I doubt it!) It also depends wildly on which of the > bazillion VB dialects you mean. > Java: 50 > JavaScript: 36 > Smalltalk: 0 > Lisp: AFAIK, there are no truly reserved words in Lisp, only > predefined functions. (??) > Python: 31 > Ruby: 38 > Tcl: Same analysis as for Lisp I believe. > > As you can see, this conclusively proves... something. > > Hmm, I wonder if there's some way to compare the size of the language > specification documents? :-} > > PS. It comes as absolutely no surprise to me that C++ has the most > keywords. But then, if I were to add AMOS Professional, that had well > over 800 keywords at the last count... > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > Java has 53 reserved words.
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