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From: maloff@calgary.UUCP (Sheldon Maloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Draco keywords
Message-ID: <1679@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 00:16:16 GMT
References: <608@myrias.UUCP> <1849@hubcap.UUCP> <1665@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> <612@myrias.UUCP>
Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
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In article <612@myrias.UUCP>, cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray) writes:
> In article <1665@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> maloff@calgary.UUCP (Sheldon Maloff) writes:

> >but, PD or commercial, we learned a little bit in our computer courses,
> >very few people enjoy typing words backwards.  Thats my beef, I

> 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

> ... 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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Quite true I suppose.  I use C exclusively at work.  And though some may 
complain about all the braces, parenthesis and terse code used in C, I haven't
heard complaints about it after one has become accustomed to the language, 
either. To each his own I suppose.

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