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From: cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Draco keywords
Summary: It's not THAT bad
Message-ID: <612@myrias.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 17:28:42 GMT
References: <608@myrias.UUCP> <1849@hubcap.UUCP> <1665@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Organization: Myrias Research Corporation
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In article <1665@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> maloff@calgary.UUCP (Sheldon Maloff) writes:

Previous stuff deleted.

>As a broke student who just graduated I be glad if it stayed PD for a while,
>but, PD or commercial, we learned a little bit in our computer courses,
>very few people enjoy typing words backwards.  Thats my beef, I
>don't like typing corp, or tnemmoc, or fi, or fidne, or ...
>I'd much rather type endproc, or endcomment, or endif.  If you could
>change the language specs to include *READABLE* terminations, just then
>I might think Draco to be serious.  Unfortunately as it stands, I won't
>use any language that forces me to learn how to spell backwards.
>
>Perhaps if I learned the alphabet backwards, that would help :-)

Just to clarify it a little. The reversed keywords used in Draco always match
up with a previous keyword in the same construct. The pairs are:

proc/corp, if/fi, case/esac, do/od

There are no 'tnemmoc' or 'fidne'. The set used was derived in part from the
language Algol68 (all except the proc/corp). All were carefully chosen to be
fully pronounceable and easy to type. The objection to reversed keywords has
been heard before, but I have NEVER heard it from someone who has used the
language for a significant amount of time.
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