Comment on Writing Linux Modules in Ada (2016)parentComments−thrawa83873363yIs this meant as a joke, too English-heavy?−cjbgkagh3yI think it’s a reference to keyword heavy in an effort to mimic natural language similar to what COBOL tried to do.−lionkor3yThey likely mean the pascal-like syntax−augustk3yStandard Pascal has 35 reserved words compared to ANSI C 89 which has 32. Not a big difference in terms of English-heaviness.https://wiki.freepascal.org/Standard_Pascalhttps://en.cppreference.com/w/c/keyword−lionkor3yPascal uses words in a lot of places where C uses symbols
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Is this meant as a joke, too English-heavy?
I think it’s a reference to keyword heavy in an effort to mimic natural language similar to what COBOL tried to do.
They likely mean the pascal-like syntax
Standard Pascal has 35 reserved words compared to ANSI C 89 which has 32. Not a big difference in terms of English-heaviness.
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Standard_Pascal
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/keyword
Pascal uses words in a lot of places where C uses symbols